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I tried Claude Code with a small-ish C++ codebase recently and found it to be quite lacking. It kept making a lot of silly syntax errors and going around in cir
by woadwarrior01 1y ago
I tried Claude Code with a small-ish C++ codebase recently and found it to be quite lacking. It kept making a lot of silly syntax errors and going around in circles. Spent about $20 in credits without it getting anywhere close to being able to solve the task I was trying to guide it through. OTOH, I know a lot of people who swear by it. But they all seem to be Python or Front-end developers.
- Wheaties466 1y agoDo we really know why LLMs seem to score the highest with python related coding tasks? I would think there are equally good examples of javascript/c++/java code to train from but I always see python with the highest scores.
- triyambakam 1y agoCould be related to how flexible Python is. Pretty easy to write bad and "working" Python code
- greenavocado 1y agoMay I ask what you tried? I have had strong successes with C++ generation
- woadwarrior01 1y agoIt was a bit esoteric, but not terribly so, some metal-cpp based code for a macOS app.
- pjmlp 1y agoProbably due to lack of data then, it isn't as if there are many developers rushing to use metal-cpp instead of Objective-C or Swift with Metal. Even the documentation is basically having to go through the source code.