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0 pointskuschku1y ago0 comments

> If you have a parser generator tool that can go from zero to parser based on a few examples rather than a grammar, I’d love to hear about it.

That's the part where the LLM would be useful. Turn the examples into a grammar, verify the grammar, and use a parser generator for the rest.

You know the code does what it should and you get there in minutes.

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wrs1y ago

I'm pretty sure it could have done that equally easily, but this grammar is small enough that a parser generator is overkill. (I made that decision before I asked the LLM to write the parser.)

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0 pointskuschku1y ago0 comments

> If you have a parser generator tool that can go from zero to parser based on a few examples rather than a grammar, I’d love to hear about it.

That's the part where the LLM would be useful. Turn the examples into a grammar, verify the grammar, and use a parser generator for the rest.

You know the code does what it should and you get there in minutes.

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wrs1y ago

I'm pretty sure it could have done that equally easily, but this grammar is small enough that a parser generator is overkill. (I made that decision before I asked the LLM to write the parser.)

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse