Work kind of guilt-tripped me into giving it a shot and my experience with Claude was such a time-waster that I’ve kinda been ignoring it and continuing to do my own thing.
Maybe other people are better at prompting or designing VSCode integrations but what I’ve experienced so far has been a mess. Utterly nonsensical design decisions, it doesn’t seem to understand basic linear algebra or the LAPACK API. (I tried adding the Fortran or C source to its context to no avail.) I asked it to rewrite a well-documented scalar function using AVX intrinsics and. . . woof. No good.
Hopefully the field either improves dramatically in a couple years or goes back into hibernation for the next AI winter.
Maybe other people are better at prompting or designing VSCode integrations but what I’ve experienced so far has been a mess. Utterly nonsensical design decisions, it doesn’t seem to understand basic linear algebra or the LAPACK API. (I tried adding the Fortran or C source to its context to no avail.) I asked it to rewrite a well-documented scalar function using AVX intrinsics and. . . woof. No good.
Hopefully the field either improves dramatically in a couple years or goes back into hibernation for the next AI winter.