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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

This is a lot of fun. Added my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/3/a...

simonwillison.netCan LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?Really fun exploration by Max Woolf, who started with a prompt requesting a medium-complexity Python challenge - "`Given a list of 1 million random integers between 1 and 100,000, find …
Max Woolf@minimaxir.bsky.social

New year, new blog post: I had a random question, what happens when LLMs are prompted to write better code, again and again? Do they actually write better code? The answer is yes*! minimaxir.com/2025/01/writ...

minimaxir.comCan LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?Most coders want AI to write code faster: I want AI to write FASTER CODE.
Ben Curtis
@bencurtis.com

Great post. I’ve found a similar thing in my interactions with Claude writing Terraform configuration (to deploy web services and supporting infrastructure)… I start out with a prompt stating what I want, get something decent back, then iterate with more prompts and better results.

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