Doesn't look minified, just very dense, almost like progcomp code. First time I've seen an LLM spit out that style of code, I'm impressed!
replyYeah looks extremely compact. I didn't instruct it or told it to use as few lines of code or characters or nothing of the sort.
replyNot sure why it did that. Its own rationale (which is highly suspect, but the only lead I have) is that it defaults to dense style if it has to write a file in a single go. May be a kernel of truth somewhere in there.
And much code on the web “in production” is minimized.
replyminified is fewer tokens than the human-readable version that we would write. It only really makes sense to write in minified js - it's also where alot of code in the wild is since every production site minifies their js which is then consumed by training.
replyI just had Opis 4.8 code up something and actually that's exactly how it coded it!
replyIt looked gross and minimized, the result was awesome but the code looked pretty awful visually
A friend sent me something he vibe coded which included a massive webassembly blob in the HTML file. My friend is not a programmer so he was not able to explain to me how it did that.
replyClaude Design export.
reply"Readability by humans" may no longer be as important as it once was.
replyMaybe it would benefit Anthropic if AI generated code worked, but wasn't readable by humans. That's a nice moat.
replyGood variable names are still useful for LLMs to understand context when refactoring.
replyOnly if LLMs will start to output object code, skipping text representation.
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