Have you ever used an LLM with Zig? It will generate syntactically invalid code. Zig breaks so often and LLMs have such an eternally old knowledge cutoff that they only know old ass broken versions.

The same goes for TLA+ and all the other obscure things people think would be great to use with LLMs, and they would, if there was as much training data as there was for JavaScript and Python.

▲

dnautics 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

i find claude does quite well with zig. this project is like > 95% claude:

https://github.com/ityonemo/clr

▲

ezekiel68 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To be fair, this was true of early public LLMs with rust code too. As more public zig repositories (and blogs / docs / videos) come online, they will improve. I agree it's a mess currently.

▲

Graziano_M 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You must have not tried this with an LLM agent in the past few months.

▲

ale 4 hours ago | parent [-]

i tested sonnet 4.5 just last week on a zig codebase and it has to be instructed the std.ArrayList syntax every time.

	▲	rudedogg 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I made a Zig agent skill yesterday if interested: https://github.com/rudedogg/zig-skills/ Claude getting the ArrayList API wrong every time was a major reason why It’s AI generated but should help. I need to test and review it more (noticed it mentions async which isn’t in 0.15.x :\| )
	▲	benatkin 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Try it again. This time do something different with CLAUDE.md. By the way it's happy to edit its own CLAUDE.md files (don't have an agent edit another agent's CLAUDE.md files though [0]) 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723384