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Yeah, precision LLM coding is kind of an oxymoron. English language -> codebase is essentially lossily-compressed logic by definition. The less lossy the compression becomes, the more you probably approach re-inventing programming languages. Which then means that in order to use LLMs to code, you're accepting some degree of imprecision.


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