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runeks ◴[] No.46005656[source]
I think it would be super interesting to see how the LLM handles extending/modifying the code it has written. Ie. adding/removing features, in order to simulate the life cycle of a normal software project. After all, LLM-produced code would only be of limited use if it’s worse at adding new features than humans are.

As I understand, this would require somehow “saving the state” of the LLM, as it exists after the last prompt — since I don’t think the LLM can arrive at the same state by just being fed the code it has written.

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1. roywiggins ◴[] No.46010197[source]
Claude can just poke around the codebase as-is. You can also have it synthesize a README and update that as it goes.

I've found it perfectly capable of adding eg new entities and forms to existing CRUD apps.