alt Hacker NewsThat's not a take I was expecting to find here. I've found most LLMs absolutely dreadful when it comes to Gleam, to the point that I most often disable even inline autocomplete when working in Gleam codebases.
Too often I find them getting pulled into larger ruts in the training data and trying to insert language features that don't exist (ifs, loops, and syntactic constructs) from more popular languages like TypeScript and Rust. Do you not experience other languages getting partially substituted in when you have LLMs write Gleam?
I suspect it depends a lot on the llm/harness being used. But when I use Opus/cc or sol/codex, at the end of the turn everything compiles, passes tests, and passes lint. I never even look at code that can't compile. Maybe the LLM is generating weird stuff in-between, but I don't see it.
What you're describing feels like my experience back in 2024/25. Back then I was using a llm auto complete or the chat interface, and I would get weird stuff all the time. (not just gleam but any language).