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I want like a double blind where I do and don’t have LLM bot: I try to use the damned thing but I do stuff like Bazel primitives and NixOS CUDA stuff and Claude doesn’t know jack shit about that stuff.

If Claude could do custom shit on rules_python, I’d marry it.

But it’s a fucking newb on hard stuff.



You could try using Claude's Projects. You can give it examples, documentation and overall guidelines, and maybe that will enable Claude to generate the code you want. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has a context window of 200k tokens, which is enough for quite a lot of context material.


I will try it!


maybe try to write actual code rather than ONLY arcane config?


That's why we have jobs with good pay for maintaining these build stuff: some software engineers really hate to deal with "arcane config" for no good reason.


Andrei Alexandrescu has a term for this: “aggressively intermediate”.


I have no problem with IaC, just that I have actual dev work to do and that sastifies my engineering instincts much more.


If you had my job you’d cry before you killed yourself.




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