SMRTR ProgrammingJan 2, 2025Daily.dev

Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?

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OpenAI's ChatGPT gained image generation abilities in late 2023, inspiring an experiment to improve code quality through iterative AI prompting. Using Claude 3.5 Sonnet, a Python function for finding numbers with digits summing to 30 was optimized. Through repeated prompts and refinement, the code's performance improved up to 100x, incorporating advanced techniques like multithreading, vectorization, and JIT compilation.

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