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> Our North Star is "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code" Can someone explain this? Are they suggesting that (eventually) one engineer can produce 1 m
by Tempest1981 10mo ago
> Our North Star is "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code"
Can someone explain this? Are they suggesting that (eventually) one engineer can produce 1 million lines of Rust code in a month? Or replace 1 million lines of C code?
Using new "powerful code processing infrastructure"... but would it understand the semantics? Are those semantics clearly documented?
- monocasa 10mo agoMy read is Rewrite it in Rust™ for the whole MS native language codebase, but with AI doing the heavy lifting of the rewrite. Except the heavy part of the rewrite would be the review process, and I would hope they aren't trusting that to predominately ML.
- tonyhart7 10mo agothey probably would using AI to review the code also, like cmon this is MS we talking about
- preommr 10mo agoThat line doesn't even make any sense. AI usage for a project is binary (either it requires a person, or it doesn't, there's no such thing where an AI is good for a team for a team of three but not a team of two). And we can already one-shot really complex applications in seconds/minutes. Why the hell would it take an entire month to generate one million lines of code? It really just boils down to AI writing a million lines of code. I actually think it can probably already do something like where there's a lot of boilerplate code.
- __patchbit__ 10mo agoIt is reactive exaggerative marketing sloganeering Alan Kay ridicules executives in business class for having. A paper on seL4 mentions $350 a source line of code on a 12 year engineering hour completed program that qualifies to a quality of code behavior expected from QNX.