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Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

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Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see what you mean, but I disagree. I expect that Claude Code is backed by a separate post-train of Claude base which has been trained using the Claude Code harness and toolset.

It is possible of course, but I see no reason to believe it.

fwiw, other models seem to / are reported to struggle much more with using claude code compared with codex / opencode / pi etc.

that being said, there are other potential explanations

Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

#24
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Tangential (but topical in that "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing" is also on the front page): Is the generated python code in the example wrong? The prompt > Develop a Python function that removes any falsey values from a list. Return the modified list without creating a new one. Is answered with list comprehension, which makes a new list and leaves the original unmodified (…

Why would you modify the original list and return it with the second example? Honestly the first is better

Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

#25
post #24
post #5

Tangential (but topical in that "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing" is also on the front page): Is the generated python code in the example wrong? The prompt > Develop a Python function that removes any falsey values from a list. Return the modified list without creating a new one. Is answered with list comprehension, which makes a new list and leaves the original unmodified (…

Why would you modify the original list and return it with the second example? Honestly the first is better

The question isn't really what's better practice, the question is whether the code follows the prompt. The first example does not.

Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

#26
post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why would you modify the original list and return it with the second example? Honestly the first is better

The question isn't really what's better practice, the question is whether the code follows the prompt. The first example does not.

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Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

#27
post #5

Tangential (but topical in that "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing" is also on the front page): Is the generated python code in the example wrong? The prompt > Develop a Python function that removes any falsey values from a list. Return the modified list without creating a new one. Is answered with list comprehension, which makes a new list and leaves the original unmodified (…

your second function is the type of bad code you get from people trying to program python like its c

Absolutely! And the list.pop version is multiple orders of magnitude slower. But I took the prompt to be asking for in-place modification of the existing list. Comprehension does not do that.

Re: Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs

#28
post #5

Tangential (but topical in that "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing" is also on the front page): Is the generated python code in the example wrong? The prompt > Develop a Python function that removes any falsey values from a list. Return the modified list without creating a new one. Is answered with list comprehension, which makes a new list and leaves the original unmodified (…

your second function is the type of bad code you get from people trying to program python like its c

Is there a pythonic way to satisfy the prompt? IE without making a new list?
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