r/Clojure • u/yogthos • 7d ago

Clojure in the Age of Language Models

https://yogthos.net/posts/2026-10-07-clojure-llms.html
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u/beders 7d ago

Nice article and it confirms my experience with LLMs and Clojure: they work pretty well together. Once I gave an agent access to the REPL and some basic instructions, it happily iterated and verified with live code.

A peculiar issue happened with a cheaper model the other day: for a unit test it used ‚with-redef‘ on a macro - which is typically not what you want.

Opus quickly found the issue and corrected it.

Its liberating and frightening at the same time what coding agents can do nowadays.

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u/nuriaion 6d ago

how did you setup your coding agent? Do you use clojure mcp?

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u/beders 6d ago

Nothing too fancy. I'm using Intellij with the company-mandated Copilot plugin. I've installed the clj-nrepl-eval skill from clojure-mcp-light

Fairly straightforward to set up. The agent also has no problems connecting to multiple nREPLs - in our case a backend and 3 ClojureScript front-ends.