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I think Claude and all of these models can translate code really well from one language to another.

The thing is it starts to fail when you are just prompting it without any example code.

And to fully prompt it to be exactly what you wanted to write is basically writing the code yourself.

So for novel code I have had far less success.

But any kind of translation or matching an API shape, it works pretty much easily.

Also Deepseek R1 can do this for much much cheaper and at virtually the same level of quality.



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