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Using LLMs for Smart

Contract Programming
Contents
1. Level 1 – Basic usage
2. Level 2 – Prompt engineering
3. Level 3 – Back-and-forth to correct errors
4. Level 4 – With local LLMs
5. Level 5 – With agents automating code generation and
fixing errors
Level 1 – Basic Usage
• We will use Poe as an example LLM based chatbot
• There are plenty others like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, etc

• These are all examples of closed-source LLM chatbots


• Meaning you don’t have access to the underlying model
weights, the training data or the training and fine-tuning
process

• There are open source LLMs as well like Llama (from


Meta) and many others (see Huggingface)
Level 2 – Prompt Engineering
• Give detailed prompts, as much as possible
• This helps the LLM to give you better and more accurate
responses
• Some things to include in the prompt would be:
• The specifications
• Example inputs and/or outputs
• Names of certain functions, if relevant
• Give it external context (can be a RAG application as well)
• Etc
• Here is an example of what a detailed prompt for the
previous example might look like
Level 3 – Back-and-forth to correct
errors
• Sometimes (most times in fact, in the case of complex
applications) you won’t get the desired result, or get
compilation errors from running the LLM generated
code.
• Copy-paste the error into the LLM, or explain what is not
working in the result, and ask it to fix it.
• Again, the more you describe the error, the better the
chances of getting the desired result.
• Here’s a demo in Poe…
Level 4 – With local LLMs
• Several reasons for using local LLMs:
• Data Privacy and Security
• Customization and Fine-Tuning
• Performance and Latency
• Cost Control
• Offline Capabilities
• Greater Transparency and Control
• Flexibility in Deployment
• Several tools exist to run local LLMs:
• LM Studio, Llamafile, GPT4ALL, Ollama, Llama.cpp, and many
others
GUI Based Local LLM Tool Example –
LM Studio
• Download and install it from here.
• Step 1: Search for a LLM to download locally and use with
LM Studio
• Step 2 – Select the model you want to download install
• Step 3 – Go to “AI Chat” on the left panel, and create a
New Chat
• Step 4 – Select the model you just downloaded from the
top panel. All the LLMs you have downloaded will show
here.
• Step 5 – Chat with the LLM. You can see the RAM and
CPU (and GPU, if your computer has one) usage go up.
• Step 6 – You can tweak the model parameters and
behavior on the Settings panel on the right
Command Line Based Local LLM Tool
Example – Ollama
• Read its documentation here to learn more, as well as
how to use it as an API endpoint.
• It gives a command line interface as well as can be used
as an API programmatically in your web apps.
• Use the syntax “ollama pull <model_name>” to
download the LLM you want (model library here), and
then “ollama run <model_name>” to run the LLM in CLI.
Level 5 – With agents automating code generation and
fixing errors

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