Define “prompt”
Define “prompt”
Posted Oct 16, 2025 6:06 UTC (Thu) by azumanga (subscriber, #90158)In reply to: Define “prompt” by mussell
Parent article: The FSF considers large language models
I was stuck with a slowly dying Python 2 program, which a few people had tried to update (and failed) to Python 3. I previously tried for 4 full days before I realised I was no-where close, and gave up.
I sat for an afternoon with Claude Code, and finished a full Python 3 translation.
Claude found replacement libraries for things without a Python 3 version, wrote fresh implementations of a couple of functions that didn't get a Python 3 upgrade (I checked, it didn't just copy the originals), and helped me then fix up all the unicode issues from the Python 2 -> Python 3 upgrade process.
