[mlyle]

Sounds like a -terrible- job for LLMs, because this is all about attention to detail. Order of operations and specific constructs of how floating point work in the codes in question are usually critical.

Have fun: https://www.qsl.net/m5aiq/nec-code/nec2-1.2.1.2.f

[throwaway10965]

Attention to detail can come later when there's something that humans can get started with. I did not mean that LLM could do it all alone.

[mlyle]

A human has to have the knowledge of what the code is trying to do and what the requisites are for accuracy and numerical stability. There's no substitute for that. Having a translation aid doesn't help at all unless it's perfect: it's more work to verify the output from a flawed tool than to do it right in this case.