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[-] vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 12 hours ago

Yes exactly.

"Implement a first order lowpass filter in C"

LLM has no issue.

"Implement a string reversal function in Wren"

LLM proceeds to output an unholy mix of python and JavaScript.

Even though the second task is trivial compared to the first, LLMs have almost no training data on Wren (an obscure semi-dead language).

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