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0 pointsint_19h5mo ago0 comments

> That sounds reasonable to me. AI is best at generating super basic and common code

I'm currently using AI (Claude Code) to write a new Lojban parser in Haskell from scratch, which is hardly something "super basic and common". It works pretty well in practice, so I don't think that assertion is valid anymore. There are certainly differences between different tasks in terms of what works better with coding agents, but it's not as simple as "super basic".

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llmslave25mo ago· 1 in thread

I'm sure there is plenty of language parsers written in Haskell in the training data. Regardless, the question isn't if LLMs can generate code (they clearly can), it's if agentic workflows are superior to writing code by hand.

int_19hOP5mo ago

There's no shortage of parsers in Haskell, but parsing a human language is very different from parsing a programming language. The grammar is much, much more complex, and this means that e.g. simple approaches that adequate error messages don't really work here because failures are non-actionable.

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