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Symflower on Symflower
Company blog · symflower.com/en/company/blogprogrammingai
Symflower on Symflower is the company blog at symflower.com, writing about programming and ai. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Is Llama-3 better than GPT-4 for generating tests?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-06-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on URL trailing-slash canonicalization problems and a deep-dive on an evaluation benchmark of software development quality. Commenters also discuss Symflower's unit-test generation product.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Is Llama-3 better than GPT-4 for generating tests?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2024-05-02
- Path independent deployment of Angular Apps without a re-build2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-09-08
- Using LLMs to Transpile Go and Java to Ruby2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-30
What Hacker News says?
Sounds like a sensible mix. There is really no single silver bullet. We at https://symflower.com/ are working on a product to generate unit tests. Unlike quickcheck/proptest we promise to find errors, even if they are unlikely (for example [this input]( https://github.com/AltSysrq/proptest/blob/master/proptest/RE... ) would be trivial for Symflower). Also, unlike fuzzing our technology is deterministic. Here's one o…
Comment linking /en/company/blog/2021/symflower-finds-minimal-reproducers/
on “Go Fuzzing”Submitted How to make Docker images even smaller as a story · 107 points
HN discussionThe lack of canonicalization has caused us tons of trouble on an Angular app. Check out https://symflower.com/en/company/blog/2021/path-independent-... - you'll be laughing (or crying)
Comment linking /en/company/blog/2021/path-independent-angular/
on “Trailing slashes on URLs: Contentious or settled?”Submitted Correct Git commits with git-autofixup as a story · 92 points
HN discussionJust announced an deep dive blog post with findings about an evaluation benchmark on software development quality. Here is a thread to the most important findings https://twitter.com/zimmskal/status/1786012661815124024 Blog post is on https://symflower.com/en/company/blog/2024/dev-quality-eval-... What i am working next: is actually the next version of that eval. The assessments can be improved in lots of ways and t…
Comment linking /en/company/blog/2024/dev-quality-eval-v0.4.0-is-llama-3-better-than-gpt-4-for-generating-tests/
on “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2024)”Submitted Path independent deployment of Angular Apps without a re-build as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Using LLMs to Transpile Go and Java to Ruby as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Finding test values: it's not black magic, it's simply math as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Frictionless code review workflow using the Gitlab API as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted LLM Naming Convention as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Integrating a language server (LSP) in a VS Code extension as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to solve logic puzzles with SMT solvers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is new in Java 23? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Llama-3 better than GPT-4 for generating tests? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Categorizing software problems with stack traces and code diffs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software Testing Trends for 2023 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Testing Pyramid as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Chesterton's Fence”: Understand the current state before changing it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Software testing: the ugly duckling of software development as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted UI System Tests with Cypress as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Transpiling Go and Java to Ruby Using GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is Llama-3 better than GPT-4 for generating tests? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Can LLMs test a Go function that does nothing? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted TreeSitter: The holy grail of parsing source code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction on Doing a Symbolic Execution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good Code Coverage means bug-free Software Or does it? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 12 + 7 = 3? as a story · 1 points
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