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Quite the contrary, really. We've been seeing "success stories" with AI translating function calls for years now, it just doesn't get any attention or make any

Quite the contrary, really. We've been seeing "success stories" with AI translating function calls for years now, it just doesn't get any attention or make any headlines because it's so simple. SIMD optimization is pretty much the lowest-hanging fruit of modern computation; a middle schooler could write working SIMD code if they understood the problem. There's certainly a bit of irony in the PR, but the code itself is not complex enough to warrant any further hysteria. If you've written SIMD by hand you're probably well familiar with the fact that it's more drudgery than thought work.

tokioyoyo 2y ago
It's been probably about 15 years since I've touched that, so I genuinely have no recollection of SIMD coding. But literally, that's the purpose of higher level automation? Like I don't know/remember it, I ask it to do stuff, it does, and the output is good enough. That's how a good chunk of companies operate - you get general idea of what to do, you write the code, then eventually it makes it to production. As we patch the holes in the AI-code delivery pipeline, those human-involved issues will be resolved as well. Slowly, painfully, but it's just a matter of time at this point?