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Ladybird is 425k LOC. Chromium is 3.5m LOC. Starting a new browser, using LLMs... Is not going to maintain enough context. Whilst Andreas does use Copilot a f
by shakna 1y ago
Ladybird is 425k LOC. Chromium is 3.5m LOC.
Starting a new browser, using LLMs... Is not going to maintain enough context.
Whilst Andreas does use Copilot a fair bit [0], he tends to do a line at a time, frequently disagree and rewrites his own, before prompting again. That is... He basically uses it as a fancy autocomplete. Not much else.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxubNQC5O8&t=3099s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mxubNQC5O8&t=3099s
- adamrt 1y agoI believe Chromium is closer to 35m LOC
- larodi 1y agoFancy or not an autocomplete is autocomplete. What if it autocompletes one class or one function at a time? Does this make it obnoxious to even think asking about it on HN?
- shakna 1y agoWe've had macro expansion since the 80s. If your IDE can't autocomplete, then it's a text editor and not an IDE. Which makes it an irrelevant question to ask, because it has no impact on making something feasible or not.
- larodi 1y agoOf course, brother, that’s the point. And while oldies one by one get to pair their IDEs with RAG+LLM autocompletes, some brothers keep raging against people using higher level code assistance. Which is both ridiculous and also very agressive.
- shakna 1y agoI'm not raging... But again... It's not relevant, here.