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Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode

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485 points zora_goron | 1 comments | 29 Aug 25 00:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.396s | 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. lm28469 ◴[29 Aug 25 08:58 UTC] No.45061803[source]▶
The only way I manage to get any benefits from LLMs is to use them as an interactive rubber duck.

Dump your thoughts in a somewhat arranged manner, tell it about your plan, the current status, the end goal, &c. After that tell it to write 0 code for now but to ask questions and find gaps in your plan. 30% of it will be bullshit but the rest is somewhat useable. Then you can ask for some code but if you care about quality or consistency with you existing code base you probably will have to rewrite half of it, and that's if the code works in the first place

Garbage in garbage out is true for training but it's also true for interactions