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I see the complete opposite. The lower level the language, the less babysit the agent. Pure asm is the best, only with very advanced SIMD flags it has problems.
by rurban 5mo ago
I see the complete opposite. The lower level the language, the less babysit the agent. Pure asm is the best, only with very advanced SIMD flags it has problems. C is excellent.
But python or typescript are full of errors all the time. I rather fallback to perl than python. Perl has been excellent all along.
- DeathArrow 5mo agoIt makes sense. In a lower level language most mistakes would break the software hard and the AI will notice it. Python and JS are happy to run with lots of bugs.
- flossly 5mo agoWhy would one not use TDD when coding with Claude? It's so cheap! Yes you need to help it with the types of tests: you still need to know what you want from it. But once you have all types of tests (unit, db, fake-services, e2e, etc.) in place and documented; it can basically write tests until you cov-tool says it's 85%. Then you can ask it to find the weakest tests: you review those and make sure they are not weak, or Claude understands why they are not weak. Then let it find the next batch of weakest tests. Etc. TDD finally makes sense economically for me on the types of projects I usually work on.
- DeathArrow 5mo agoBut I use TDD when coding with AI.