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   Robert Roskam (raiderrobert@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 00:31:03 JST Robert Roskam

   Any _good_ code generators out there?

   I've been working in Zed, using Claude 3.5 Sonnet. For completions, it's fine. No real complaints.

   But when I try to do something larger (>200 LOC), I'm finding the output is often very bad. Doesn't matter the language.

   It's likely that I'm not able to express in a short block of text what I'm trying to accomplish. So the small text prompt approach is likely the wrong UI.

   But is there a better one? Has anyone seen it?

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     Elias (eliasr@social.librem.one)'s status on Monday, 16-Dec-2024 00:31:03 JST Elias

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     @raiderrobert

     > Any _good_ code generators out there?

     The C preprocessor comes to mind, it's good I think. You can also use C++ templates recursively to generate lots and lots of code, which I guess can be good in some cases if you know what you are doing.