alt Hacker NewsAs someone who doesn’t code in C and does more analytics work (SQL), is the code generated here “production grade?” One of the major criticisms I hear about llms is they tend to generate code that you wouldn’t want to maintain, is that the case here?
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minimaxir • yesterday at 8:37 PM
Those statements are mostly out of date and symptomatic of pre-agent-optimized LLMs. Opus 4.5 with clarifying rules in the CLAUDE.md does a good job at following idiomatic best practices in my experience.
That said, I'm mixed on agentic performance for data science work but it does a good job if you clearly give it the information it needs to solve the problem (e.g. for SQL, table schema and example data)
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It's not bad. Skimming the code I'd say it's not enterprise quality but it's definitely better than an amateur throwaway project.