#code-generation

A high-ranking Hacker News thread amplified Apple's paper on simple self-distillation for code generation, a training recipe that improves pass@1 without verifier models or reinforcement learning.

A LocalLLaMA post claims a QLoRA-tuned 14B Qwen coder model can beat frontier proprietary models on Ada compilation tasks, reviving interest in domain-specific coding models for niche but high-stakes languages.

A user created a fully playable space exploration game using only natural language instructions to Gemini 3.1 Pro over a few hours. The AI handled performance optimization, soundtrack generation, and UI design entirely from plain language requests, producing around 1,800 lines of HTML code.