LLM Log

We're all trying to build some intuition on what does and doesn't work when using LLMs.

Worked #

• Making CSS counters display in hex rather than decimal. (Claude)
• Converting a C header struct into a python ctypes struct. (Claude)
• In editor, converting logging.info("Done. " + elapsed_seconds + " seconds.") into something that rounds elapsed_seconds to two decimal points (and uses a format string). (Continue.dev)
• Converting AppleScript to JavaScript (Claude)
• Reading an .ics (calendar) file and telling me what events were in it. (llm)
• Generating a web page to print envelopes. (Val.town)[https://philz-tendermagentacod.web.val.run] (Claude)[https://philz-static.web.val.run/static/envelope].
• Changing the first character of a few lines (like I would usually do with regular expressions) (Copilot)
• Filling in some variables into a SQL query. (ChatGPT)

Didn't Work #

• Understanding the difference between memory usage reported by Activity Monitor and ps. (Claude)
• Building a website that authenticates with Passkeys (val.town)