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559 points Gricha | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 21:33 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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f311a ◴[11 Dec 25 15:53 UTC] No.46232910[source]▶
I like to ask LLMs to find problems o improvements in 1-2 files. They are pretty good at finding bugs, but for general code improvements, 50-60% edits are trash. They add completely unnecessary stuff. If you ask them to improve a pretty well-written code, they rarely say it's good enough already.

For example, in a functional-style codebase, they will try to rewrite everything to a class. I have to adjust the prompt to list things that I'm not interested in. And some inexperienced people are trying to write better code by learning from such changes of LLMs...

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1. ryandrake ◴[11 Dec 25 17:02 UTC] No.46233940[source]▶
I asked Claude the other day to look at one of my hobby projects that has a client/server architecture and a bespoke network protocol, and brainstorm ideas for converting it over to HTTP, JSON-RPC, or something else standards-based. I specifically told it to "go wild" and really explore the space. It thought for a while and provided a decent number of suggestions (several I was unaware of) with "verdicts". Ultimately, though, it concluded that none of them were ideal, and that the custom wire protocol was fine and appropriate for the project. I was kind of shocked at this conclusion: I expected it to behave like that eager intern persona we all have come to expect--ready to rip up the code and "do things."