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Don’t Force Your LLM to Write Terse Code: An Argument from Information Theory for q/kdb+ Developers

I’ve been building coding tools to help LLMs write q/kdb+ code, and one of the quants I spoke to asked: “Could we get it to write really terse code?”The q/kdb+ community has a long tradition of preferring terse code, and they feel quite strongly that this is the right way to write code. I used to be in that camp myself before LLM coding assistants came along, as I use small screens and like to minimize keypresses. Nowadays, however, when it’s LLMs writing my code, all I care about is keeping my ...

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