Teaching Claude to Write Pony
I’m not really sure how to tell the story of me teaching Claude to write Pony, so I’m just going to tell it and see how it goes.
A year ago, every LLM I tested on Pony produced the same thing: a weird Python/Pony hybrid that didn’t compile and didn’t understand Pony’s semantics. I’d ask for a program that prompts you for your name and prints “Hello {name}.” Simple stuff. They all failed miserably. So when I sat down two weeks ago to try again with Claude Code, my expectations were modest.