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we're trying to generate a Python script that appears to be written by an expert developer.

But you're not. You're just deferring to an LLM. Try to create some abstractions that can work. For instance there are libraries that unuglify code. Better to start from correct python and build from that than doing the whole shebang with an LLM black box

In your case of 100k formulas verifying the output is correct would be a monumental task especially if it's not deterministic and you can't have library tests. And the human readable format is much harder to deduce about and validate. And getting an answer for one a single input output pair is prone to over fitting esp if you do it recursively to have it fit errors

No offense, but I can't imagine anyone using this for anything serious.

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