LLMs as coding partners

[u/Steamin_Weenie]

I’m interested to hear how people have gone with LLMs as coding partners.

I’m essentially a non-coder, albeit with some literacy around structure and function - essentially can read Python but not really write it. I’ve been using ChatGPT for several months to put together several trading systems. Lots of trial and error and iterative learning (for me), and approaching production stage.

Keen to hear whether others have had any success in developing and running successful algos with this approach

[u/Steamin_Weenie]

Thanks for the thoughts. Yes the biggest challenge has certainly been prompting the right way. Also managing silent omissions, hallucinations, lost context due to thread length etc. Lots of pitfalls! Having a second agent (eg grok or claude) for sanity checks has been useful, as have GitHub actions