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485 points zora_goron | 2 comments | 29 Aug 25 00:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.401s | source
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not_your_vase ◴[29 Aug 25 05:23 UTC] No.45060519[source]▶
3 days ago I saw another Claude praising submission on HN, and finally I signed up for it, to compare it with copilot.

I asked 2 things.

1. Create a boilerplate Zephyr project skeleton, for Pi Pico with st7789 spi display drivers configured. It generated garbage devicetree which didn't even compile. When I pointed it out, it apologized and generated another one that didn't compile. It configured also non-existent drivers, and for some reason it enabled monkey test support (but not test support).

2. I asked it to create 7x10 monochromatic pixelmaps, as C integer arrays, for numeric characters, 0-9. I also gave an example. It generated them, but number eight looked like zero. (There was no cross in ether 0 nor 8, so it wasn't that. Both were just a ring)

What am I doing wrong? Or is this really the state of the art?

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1. bakugo ◴[29 Aug 25 06:31 UTC] No.45060880[source]▶
What you're doing wrong is that you're asking it for something more complicated than babby's first webapp in javascript/python.

When people say things like "I told Claude what I wanted and it did it all on the first try!", that's what they mean. Basic web stuff that that is already present in the model's training data in massive volumes, so it has no issue recreating it.

No matter how much AI fanatics try to convince you otherwise, LLMs are not actually capable of software engineering and never will be. They are largely incapable of performing novel tasks that are not already well represented in their weights, like the ones you tried.

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2. johnisgood ◴[29 Aug 25 08:49 UTC] No.45061748[source]▶
What they are not capable of is replacing YOU, the human who is supposed to be part of the whole process (incl. architectural). I do not think that this is a limitation. In fact, I like being part of the process.