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it's very odd that someone with no experience would take a big project like this and just jump to another language because he trusts the AI generated code of cu
by muyuu 8mo ago
it's very odd that someone with no experience would take a big project like this and just jump to another language because he trusts the AI generated code of current models
if it works it works i guess, but it seems mad to me on the surface
- fmbb 8mo agoWhy do you think the creator behind SerenityOS has no experience? I mean it’s not the most popular OS out there but he seems like a capable individual.
- simonask 8mo agoIt's hard to articulate, but as someone who knows first hand, I just want to say that manic productivity is not the same as solid engineering.
- muyuu 8mo agoin case it's not glaringly obvious from the comment, he has plenty of cpp experience and little rust experience, and that's according to his own comments the relevant bit here is that he's porting from a language in which he has plenty of experience into another one in which he doesn't, in a large project that in itself sounds like putting a lot of faith in LLMs but maybe there are factors not mentioned here, which is why i said "on the surface"
- jacquesm 8mo agoIndeed, the hard part won't the port, but the maintenance of that which got ported. To be fair though, he's probably going to be able to use the same techniques for that.
- jibal 8mo agoDid you read the OP? No trust, only thorough verification.
- muyuu 8mo agoI did, and the point stands because reading someone else's code is not the same as writing it, esp. when you're not able to do so to the same standard
- jibal 8mo agoNon sequitur. Again, no trust was involved, only verification through extreme testing. Also, as others have pointed out, "someone with no experience" simply isn't true.
- muyuu 8mo agothe trust element to me is jumping into a port, not specific code although code you didn't write in a language you're not an expert with, will ALWAYS introduce an added risk of falling into pitfalls you can only avoid with experience, the more the merrier you're banking in the LLMs quite strongly when you do that, which may just work but i would be very worried about myself if i were in his boots
- jibal 8mo ago> code you didn't write He did write it. > you're banking in the LLMs quite strongly when you do that, which may just work but i would be very worried about myself if i were in his boots I too would worry if it were you doing it.
- muyuu 8mo ago> He did write it. he did not, the LLM did it > I too would worry if it were you doing it. i would not worry about anything you do, because it's obvious you would never get to that point
- jibal 8mo ago"It" was the C++ code ... you don't even understand what you yourself wrote. > i would not worry about anything you do, because it's obvious you would never get to that point Childish whatabouting and projection. I will never respond to you again.