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>>tablet+(OP)
Here are two routine problems I have to solve at the moment. Can any of the current LLM systems do either?

1. Input is an 256x256 pixel elevation map stored as a greyscale .png file, and a minimum and maximum elevation. A pixel value of 0 corresponds to the minimum elevation, and a pixel value of 255 corresponds to the maximum elevation. Read in the .png file and the elevation limits. Then construct a 256x256 floating point array of heights. From that array, construct a triangle mesh with X and Y dimensions 0..255. Perform a mesh reduction operation on the triangle mesh to reduce the number of triangles. Mesh reduction must not generate holes in the mesh. From the reduced mesh, generate a glTF file where the UV parameters run from 0.0 to 1.0 along the X and Y axes.

2. Given four glTF files constructed as above, corresponding to four quadrants of a larger square, construct a single 511x511 mesh which combines all four input meshes to cover a larger area. Because the input meshes are 0..255, not 0..256, there will be gaps where the four quadrants meet. Fill those gaps with reasonable triangles. Perform a mesh reduction as above. From the reduced mesh, generate a glTF file where the UV parameters run from 0.0 to 1.0 along the X and Y axes.

Rust code is preferred; Python code is acceptable.

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>>Animat+xA
Tackling 1: No current LLM will be able to do that. Create your Rust project, figure out the dependencies that could be useful on your own, then start by asking which types can be expressed. Then after you have revised the types, figure out (with or without LLM) which functions have to be implemented. Then ask LLMs to implement these functions with tests. With some modifications, you should be able to have a final working solution.

Edit: took a while but here is the code generated by DeepSeek: https://gist.github.com/omarabid/b30195011abf570fde2a084cd11... If you have an example file I could give it a test run.

>>csomar+sO
How have you found LLMs' Rust capabilities compared to Python or Typescript or other more common languages with more publicly available data?

>>energy+RV
I tried some LLMs about six months ago, and got a halfway decent translation between Linden Scripting Language and Lua. I didn't expect that to work at all, but it did, despite very different syntax. The parent article says that if you haven't tried this in six months, it's time to try again. It looks like it's going to be useful for game geometry wrangling, at least.

LLMs seem to be good at finding obscure library functions from a description of the function needed, something where where keyword searches aren't too helpful. Previously, searching Stack Overflow helped, but nobody is posting there any more. Good reference manuals are almost historical artifacts now.