I find AI coding tools such as Claude Code incredibly useful, especially when combined with tools like Kaimon.jl. However, I also find that the code they generate is often surprisingly non-idiomatic Julia. Beyond aesthetics, this has practical consequences. The generated code frequently misses oppo…

In my experience with agentic coding, this is hard to do something about. Ingesting a comprehensive style guide big enough to rid them of Python-isms would take up a good chunk of the context window, which is probably better spent elsewhere. I recommend two approaches to this: Put a brief list of…

I’ve read that the idea of separating these models into two, one human language trained, and one computer language trained (with a third to translate between the two), often yields worse results than the monolithic human language one. But for this specific aspect, it does sound like a version of Cla…

Aside from asking agents to do some API documentation, help with some macros, and standardising instructions and prompts. I basically hand wrote all of PortfolioOptimisers.jl until Opus 4.8 came out. I think i did a pretty good job creating an agentic workflow bit by bit that now works incredibly w…

[image] yakir12: I’ve read that the idea of separating these models into two, one human language trained, and one computer language trained (with a third to translate between the two), often yields worse results than the monolithic human language one. But for this specific aspect, it does sound …

[image] jakobnissen: In my experience with agentic coding, this is hard to do something about. Ingesting a comprehensive style guide big enough to rid them of Python-isms would take up a good chunk of the context window, which is probably better spent elsewhere. The better tool for this is ho…

Note “idiomatic” below, not in the paper, but what it enabled for Fortran porting: [image] Persistent Recursive Worlds Enable Autonomous Software Evolution Complex software systems develop over timescales that exceed the lifespan of any individual coding agent. Most agentic software syst…

[image] yakir12: Beyond aesthetics, this has practical consequences. The generated code frequently misses opportunities for classic Julia strengths such as multiple dispatch, leveraging existing package functionality, and introducing concrete types or type information early in the design. Instea…

[image] ParadaCarleton: This is mostly because Julia lacks the static checking used for informed speculative decoding and RLVF (Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Feedback) in other programming languages. that sentence is a complete non-sequitur; neither of those techniques you’re name-dr…

[image] ParadaCarleton: This is mostly because Julia lacks the static checking used for informed speculative decoding and RLVF (Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Feedback) in other programming languages. No, with all due respect, I don’t think that’s it, its just that Julia is very if no…

Idiomatic Julia code in AI generated code

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that sentence is a complete non-sequitur; neither of those techniques you’re name-dropping require nor have anything to do with static typing.

Limitations of Julia for AI? Better language(s) for AI, or similar graph-based possible for Julia?

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