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cataclysm

Cataclysm - Code generation library for the end game

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thorax·Nov 2, 2025

I like the OP's idea and think it actually has some fun you applications. Especially with a little more narrowing of scope. Similar fun concept as the cataclysm library for Python: https://github.com/Mattie/cataclysm

In Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)

thorax·Mar 15, 2025

I really like the spirit! This sort of concept was one of the first things I wanted to explore with a spiritually adjacent project (cataclysm). It's been a bit, so I need to take time to update the python JIT generation now that we have much better coding models, but I'm a big fan of this sort of abstraction. https://github.com/Mattie/cataclysm As most of us here can see, for many tasks now you don't really need to worry that you have the exact right syntax. I think you still need expert precision when it matters immensely, but we all develop tools, scripts, layers and the like that manual precision isn't necessary.

In Sketch-Programming: A Minimalist Paradigm for Code Design

splatzone·Apr 11, 2023

Also check out Cataclysm: https://github.com/Mattie/cataclysm Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK8fUuQDgZ4

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jeron·Apr 1, 2023Submission

Cataclysm – Code generation library for the end game

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thorax·Mar 31, 2023Submission

Show HN: cataclysm v0.1 – the final Python module?

cataclysm is an over-the-top experiment to take more of the human out of coding. Any function you give it, it generates and executes. No need to think about what you need, it'll make it for you. I haven't taught it to use itself yet if a module isn't installed, but that's next on the agenda once GPT4 isn't so slow. Video intro here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK8fUuQDgZ4 Some random examples when using global cataclysm: >>> uhoh = first_prime_with_3_digits() >>> print(uhoh) 101 >>> scary_words = get_italicized_phrases_wikipedia(page="Global catastrophic risk", only_lowercase_words=True, min_length=6) >>> print(scary_words[:5]) ['existential risks', 'existential catastrophe[16]', 'global', 'terminal', 'permanent,'] Fun experiment: I fed it some of the 'tests' for other simple Python based modules and it was pretty good

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at implementing what was needed to succeed at them by replacing their module name with `doom.`. Obviously lots it can't do, but it's already surprisingly reliable. You'll need a GPT4 API key-- it works with ChatGPT 3.5 turbo but that code is a little less reliable (and it can't generate as lengthy code). It has two modes-- the ridiculous 'global' cataclysm mode for use in notebooks/interpreter that lets you hand-wave any function name and it'll cook it up for you. This is a bit scary (a typo turns into random code execution), so the second mode is just to use 'doom.' in front of any function name and it'll generate/cache its best guess for the right code given where it's called in the call stack (and its name/types/parameter names/etc). A bit extreme, but a small concept to help us adjust to the impending cataclysm ahead of us. :)

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