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Re:LLMs reward expertise by akoboldfrying on Monday August 03, 2026 @10:23PM (#49163748)
Not really, for making a single-file anything ex nihilo. I suppose the chat window won't be able to run a linter or make and run tests as a typical "eager" agent might, so maybe it will make more mistakes.
Re:LLMs reward expertise by ElectricalUnion on Monday August 03, 2026 @10:34PM (#49163803)
Almost all web chatbot providers have code sandboxes that they will run (limited) tooling for you. If you ask for it, it will run deterministic linters, formatters, format converters, tests for you. Older versions of Claude would for example happily try to reverse engineer entire artifacts for you, once you provide a URL.