I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked
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Re: I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked
#2"it mostly worked" is just a more nuanced way of saying "it didn't work".
Apparently the author did eventually get something working, but it is false to say that the LLMs produced a working project.
Re: I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked
#3I tried to do this a few weeks ago, I tried to build a NIF around an existing C lib. I was using Claude Opus and burned over $300 (I didn't have Pro) on tokens with no usable results.
Re: I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked
#4I tried to do this a few weeks ago, I tried to build a NIF around an existing C lib. I was using Claude Opus and burned over $300 (I didn't have Pro) on tokens with no usable results.
Get Pro, 4 is quite good at Elixir now but you have to stay on it. 3.5 was not, so I imagine next version of Claude will be able to handle the more esoteric things like NIFs, etc.
Re: I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked
#5I tried to do this a few weeks ago, I tried to build a NIF around an existing C lib. I was using Claude Opus and burned over $300 (I didn't have Pro) on tokens with no usable results.
Get Pro, 4 is quite good at Elixir now but you have to stay on it. 3.5 was not, so I imagine next version of Claude will be able to handle the more esoteric things like NIFs, etc.
Get Pro 5.. it will work I promise
Re: I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked
#6For anyone wondering, the article clarifies that "A NIF is a function that is implemented in C instead of Erlang".
I had a bunch of fun getting ChatGPT Code Interpreter to write (and compile and test) C extensions for SQLite last year: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/23/building-c-extensions-...
Re: I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Get Pro, 4 is quite good at Elixir now but you have to stay on it. 3.5 was not, so I imagine next version of Claude will be able to handle the more esoteric things like NIFs, etc.
Get Pro 5.. it will work I promise
I've completely refactored my Elixir codebase with Claude 4, expanded the test suite by 1,000 more tests, and released a few more features faster than I ever have to actual paying customers. Tidewave MCP is helpful as are some custom commands and a well tunded CLAUDE.md But you do you.
Re: I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked
#8"it mostly worked" is just a more nuanced way of saying "it didn't work". Apparently the author did eventually get something working, but it is false to say that the LLMs produced a working project.
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Re: I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked
#9"it mostly worked" is just a more nuanced way of saying "it didn't work". Apparently the author did eventually get something working, but it is false to say that the LLMs produced a working project.
I dunno. Depending on the writer and their particularly axe to grind the definition can vary widely. I would like it to mean, "any fixes I needed to make were minimal and not time intensive."
Re: I let LLMs write an Elixir NIF in C; it mostly worked
#10built my startup in elixir. love it but nifs are one of the few ways you can crash the VM. I don't trust myseld to write a nif in production. no way I'd do it with AI in c. Thank god theres projects like rustler which can catch panics before it crashes the main VM.