[cdaringe]

I hope so too. I’ve been using claude in some medium sized c projects and tbh its still not excellent. YMMV. Bolting it onto existing projects has been difficult. It doesn’t do a great job of understanding the build graph, nor the dependency relationships between the host system’s libraries (even with coaching, particularly in mac/arm space). It does pretty good at crushing impl code, but kind of the infrastructure and setup pieces are still lagging . I have a counter example on a smaller project, for which I was programming an E ink display, and it was able to understand all of the dependencies quite well, but that’s mainly cause they were localized and not heavily reliant on any sort of system libraries, and the build system was much simpler

[dabockster]

The Chinese models like Deepseek R1 and the Qwen Coder series have been way better at coding than any of the western models. And they're open source, too.

32 billion sized R1 and Qwen models blow GPT, Gemini, and Claude out of the water for coding tasks usually. And they can be made to run on a standard gaming PC off the shelf from somewhere like Best Buy or Costco. They will run really really slowly, though, but they will run.