I am working with a new for me tech, and got stuck integrating an SDK from a hardware manufacturer into my runtime. The SDK is in C, and my runtime isn’t.
A friend suggested to use his LLM wrangling skills to get the SDK adapted. The results were interesting, but we wasted a day or two on trying to make it actually work and failed.
Then it turned out I can call C code from within my runtime, which the LLM did not point out. I figured out the specifics with a bit of googling and successfully managed to call C functions. Yet there were still issues in parsing the data, now in C SDK itself; the friend used different LLMs to refactor and comment C code, but they did a bad job with missing implementations and a lot of general obvious comments (an empty deinitialization function with “clean up as needed” comment and so on).
Then it turned out there was an SDK for my runtime. I just did not search enough. Of course, the LLM would not say that. The LLM would just obediently try to do what it’s asked to do and never question why.
A friend suggested to use his LLM wrangling skills to get the SDK adapted. The results were interesting, but we wasted a day or two on trying to make it actually work and failed.
Then it turned out I can call C code from within my runtime, which the LLM did not point out. I figured out the specifics with a bit of googling and successfully managed to call C functions. Yet there were still issues in parsing the data, now in C SDK itself; the friend used different LLMs to refactor and comment C code, but they did a bad job with missing implementations and a lot of general obvious comments (an empty deinitialization function with “clean up as needed” comment and so on).
Then it turned out there was an SDK for my runtime. I just did not search enough. Of course, the LLM would not say that. The LLM would just obediently try to do what it’s asked to do and never question why.