alt Hacker NewsUnfortunately, given the clear LLM basis of this project, s-expressions aren't a great choice. I've found coding agents struggle really hard with s-expression parentheses matching.
Much better to give them something more M-expr styled, I think a grammar that is LL(1) is probably helpful in that regard.
Basically the more you can piggyback on the training data depth for algol-style and pythonic languages the better.
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dleslie • today at 12:48 AM
Opus 4.6 handles elisp just fine. But I suppose YMMV.
2ndorderthought • today at 12:49 AM
Why are we even spending time on this. It's vibe coded slop. The creator probably never even ran it before it got to HN
That has definitely not been my experience as of late. I have produced multiple, largeish Clojure projects with AI that have been perfectly formatted and functional. Perhaps you were using an older or possibly smaller model? I am admittedly using Claude with higher end models and mid to high effort but it has been working great for months for me at this point.