Yes
sonnet was able to do it in half a day and stumbled for another half a day on a minor error until I pointed out its mistake, but the code was absolutely bad
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37K LoC
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Helped: Feasibility testing and identifying pitfalls in complex porting.
Got in the way: Generated bad code and stumbled on minor errors.
I recently did a feasibility test for porting complex c++ project to a stripped down DSP processor with no c or c++ stdlib without making changes to the actual project - sonnet was able to do it in half a day and stumbled for another half a day on a minor error until I pointed out its mistake, but the code was absolutely bad. Just the same, I would’ve taken two weeks to just know it was feasible and I have a reference to know how it avoided certain pitfalls. …