> Shows what's really missing from these old projects Well that's kind of the opportunity there, right? Usually there are more modern solutions: - use GH acti

> Shows what's really missing from these old projects Well that's kind of the opportunity there, right? Usually there are more modern solutions: - use GH actions to do multi platform / multi-compiler tests - use modern packaging solutions (eg, convert setup.py to a Pep 518 style pyproject.toml) - publish to package repos (eg, many python projects are not on pypi) This kind of work was baffling to me before I started working with gpt4 - my main struggle was understanding existing solutions, reading the documentation of existing build and packaging systems, and troubleshooting complex error logs. At first gpt4 simply helped me when my own reading inabilities kicked my butt. But then I got better at understanding existing solutions and proposing new work. Now I can describe things at a high level and give GPT the right context it needs to propose a good first draft solution. And I understand things well enough to manually validate the solution. On top of that we also go ahead and test the solution, and fix issues that come up. As a result I'm simply not scared of build systems anymore, no matter how byzantine or poorly documented. I'm vastly more capable of completing improvements then I was a year ago, and have half a dozen major upgrades under my belt. I don't think that this will ever work automatically given that even gpt4 still hallucinates and lacks big picture thinking and awareness of up to date best practices. However I do see it as a huge Force Multiplier for our loose community of volunteers. We'll have to break down the assumptions that GPT always hallucinates uncontrollably. That's simply not true - GPT4 usually hallucinates in ways that are easy to fix by checking documentation and running tests. It usually introduces less errors than I do if I'm new to a system, and with its help I can correct more errors than I can on my own. I see it as a huge win, if we can educate people in the community.