Tony ArnoldMar 9

I am doing my PRs of shame now to rewrite and tidy some of the absolute junk that I let Opus and Codex add to my project last week.

Why yes, they can code in Swift!

Just not well.

I'm patiently waiting for any LLM to get better at native software work.

Show threadHelge HeßMar 9
@tonyarnold They can, but they can’t write properly indented code. Same like most humans tbf.
Little help if you have to reindent all the stuff manually afterwards, could have written it w/ proper styling in the first place.
Show threadTony Arnold

@helge I have swift format setup and (mostly) let it do what it wants to with a formatting stage afterward.

I do the same on teams, too - I really wish there'd been advancement on how code is stored such that formatting didn't matter at all and ended up being a client side decision for display.

Mar 9 at 12:54amIvory for Mac
Show threadHelge HeßMar 9
@tonyarnold Well, people who use linters are the perfect audience for coding agents, imo. 🏃‍♀️
Show threadTony ArnoldMar 9
@helge shots fired!
Show threadHelge HeßMar 9
@tonyarnold And formatting really doesn’t matter at all to the compiler, you could display the semantic ast however you wish. We don’t need to change the storage format for that.