Author Uses AI To Implement Deflate
A developer experiments with Arturo, a stack-based language maintained by Yanis Zafirópulos, and asks an AI coding agent to implement Deflate compression. The AI produces passing tests by wrapping Python's Deflate library with a small Arturo shell; after the author requests a pure-Arturo rewrite the agent runs overnight but a cloud VM crash during a GitHub outage prevents completion, so testing ends successful but incomplete.
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Practical, illustrative example of LLM coding utility and pitfalls; limited by single anecdote and narrow scope.
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