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0 pointsgambiting14d ago0 comments

>>It’s like 95% of development is web and LLM providers care only about that.

I've been trying to use it for C++ development and it's maybe not completely useless, but it's like a junior who very confidently spouts C++ keywords in every conversation without knowing what they actually mean. I see that people build their entire companies around it, and it must be just web stuff, right? Claude just doesn't work for C++ development outside of most trivial stuff in my experience.

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logicprog14d ago

Models are also quite good at Go, Rust, and Python in my experience — also a lot of companies are using TypeScript for many non web related things now. Apparently they're also really good at C, according to the guy who wrote Redis anyway.

widdershins14d ago

It's working reasonably well for me. But this is inside a well-established codebase with lots of tests and examples of how we structure code. I also haven't used it much for building brand new features yet, but for making changes to existing areas.

VortexLain14d ago

GPT models are generally much better at C++, although they sometimes tend to produce correct but overengineered code, and the operator has to keep an eye on that.

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