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This may be the largest AI-generated codebase right now, by a lot. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out.

Frontier AI software development still falls short in the design/architecture department, in my recent experience. Though it's pretty impressive at making "working" code.

This being a fairly direct conversion from one language to another, even keeping the same interfaces across files, means the architecture is already in place.

The detailed test coverage is also very helpful for Claude. But even detailed testing can't cover every edge case.

So my questions are: How well did Claude do on the edge cases? And how maintainable will this codebase be going forward?

parent TheMiddleMan 5 months ago

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