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by tannhaeuser 151 days ago
> Opus 4.5 is really good at Prolog

Anything you'd like to share? I did some research within the realm of classic robotic-like planning ([1]) and the results were impressive with local LLMs already a year ago, to the point that obtaining textual descriptions for complex enough problems became the bottleneck, suggesting that prompting is of limited use when you could describe the problem in Prolog concisely and directly already, given Prolog's NLP roots and one-to-one mapping of simple English sentences. Hence that report isn't updated to GLM 4.7, Claude whatever, or other "frontier" models yet.

[1]: https://quantumprolog.sgml.net/llm-demo/part1.html

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Opus 4.5 helped me implement a basic coding agent in a DSL built on top of Prolog: https://deepclause.substack.com/p/implementing-a-vibed-llm-c.... It worked surprisingly well. With a bit of context it was able to (almost) one-shot about 500 lines of code. With older models, I felt that they "never really got it".