Questions tagged [python]
Post a PromptPrompts producing Python programs.
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One prompt for a polite, resumable web scraper that won't get me IP-banned
I needed to pull a few thousand product pages for a price-history side project. My first scraper hammered the site with 50 concurrent requests, got a 429, then kept retrying instantly and made it wors
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Measure-before-optimize prompt so the model stops tuning cold code
I asked a local Llama-3 70B to "make this data pipeline faster" and it micro-optimized a list comprehension that runs once at startup while ignoring the O(n^2) join in the hot loop. Textbook: it optim
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Splitting a 600-line god function into pure units without behavior drift
The worst function in our codebase does input parsing, three network calls, retry logic, formatting, and logging in one 600-line block. I wanted GPT to carve it into small pure functions plus a thin o
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Making the model generate a config loader with validation instead of raw os.environ reads
Half our incidents traced back to config: an env var typo'd to an empty string, a port that was actually the literal text "8080" compared against an int, a feature flag that was the string "false" (wh