Comment by martythemaniak

One thing I'd like to experiment with is "prompt to service". I want to take an existing microservice of about 3-5kloc and see if I can write a prompt to get o1 to generate the entire service, proper structure, all files, all tests, compiles and passes etc. o1 certainly has the context window to do this at 200k input and 100k output - code is ~10 tokens per line of code, so you'd need like 100k input and 50k output tokens.

My approach would be:

- take an exemplar service, dump it in the context

- provide examples explaining specific things in the exemplar service

- write a detailed formal spec

- ask for the output in JSON to simplify writing the code - [{"filename":"./src/index.php", "contents":"<?php...."}]

The first try would inevitably fail, so I'd provide errors and feedback, and ask for new code (ie complete service, not diffs or explanations), plus have o1 update and rewrite the spec based on my feedback and errors.

Curious if anyone's tried something like this.