[gritzko]

That is interesting. I make LLMs write C with the general hope that a simpler language they can manage well. That is not entirely true, though. They reason about C fluently indeed. The problem is, Claude pumps lots of bad C into the codebase if left unattended for 5 min. So, I need some clean-up passes afterwards to get to some acceptable quality level (both by LLMs and my own eyes). At which point, Claude sees the problem clearly, for some mysterious reason. Also, I use a C dialect heavly influenced by Go (slices, generics, no smart tricks, virtually no malloc).

[satvikpendem]

> general hope that a simpler language they can manage well

It's the opposite; a language with lots of guardrails allows the AI to write better code especially as it is able to use the compiler and linter to guide it through the process. It's why OpenAI for example was able to disprove some recent theorem recently, due to the LLM converting its thoughts into a formal language theorem prover to then check its work.

[bjoli]

> if left unattended for 5 min.

Is THAT how people use AI? I thought _I_ was vibe coding by telling it to write one function at a time and making sure I understand every line it outputs.

[ahknight]

"Vibe coding" is a term that means "Prompt the LLM with a request for a project and wait for it to finish". If you're reading and understanding anything it made, that's not vibe coding, that's agentic development.