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This makes a lot of sense. For example, we (and many others) depend heavily on numpy. It's been around for decades and heavily battle tested. If someone came o

This makes a lot of sense. For example, we (and many others) depend heavily on numpy. It's been around for decades and heavily battle tested. If someone came out with a new version of numpy vibe-code rewritten in a week, with assurances that "all tests pass", do you think we would adopt it? Absolutely not. We would have no confidence that there aren't some latent bugs or that we can fully trust the results. It has nothing to do with AI having rewritten it, it has to do with being battle tested over time. If a team of humans had rewritten it in a week, I wouldn't trust or use it either.

sigmar 5mo ago
>it has to do with being battle tested over time. If a team of humans had rewritten it in a week, I wouldn't trust or use it either. "it was made in a week" gets repeated a lot on HN, but the PR wasn't a release. They've been working on the rust rewrite for more than a month and it hasn't shipped.
- bastawhiz 5mo ago
  One week to four weeks doesn't make it better.
  - antonvs 5mo ago
    Did you miss the part where they said "it hasn't shipped"?
    - bastawhiz 5mo ago
      Do you think it won't? How many weeks do you think it'll take to review all that code, or do you admit a 1M line PR is unreviewable?
- insane_dreamer 5mo ago
  > They've been working on the rust rewrite for more than a month and it hasn't shipped doesn't make any difference the point is, users haven't been using it for years, like the original there is absolutely no way that you can internally test all the use cases that users encounter, especially with such a large code base
ghusto 5mo ago
That's like saying "It took me a month to hand-make this cupboard. If someone made a cupboard in just one day using a machine, do you think I'd trust it?".
- happytoexplain 5mo ago
  Only you can prevent tangential arguments about analogies.
  - ghusto 5mo ago
    Took me a while to understand what you meant by this, and I hope I got it right: If I use a simile or analogie, people will argue about that instead of my point? Possibly, but my simile was strong enough to be an example. In fact, it's something that happened (still happens to some extent) in carpentry. Note well the absense of any argument against it, but the downvoting.
- insane_dreamer 5mo ago
  you totally missed the point; it's like: "thousands of people have bought, used and reviewed this hand-made cupboard over the past 10 years, so I can trust that it's good" vs "no one has used this cupboard that was made in one day, so I have no idea whether it's good or not" call me back in a couple of years and we'll talk

sigmar 5mo ago

>it has to do with being battle tested over time. If a team of humans had rewritten it in a week, I wouldn't trust or use it either. "it was made in a week" gets repeated a lot on HN, but the PR wasn't a release. They've been working on the rust rewrite for more than a month and it hasn't shipped.

bastawhiz 5mo ago
One week to four weeks doesn't make it better.
- antonvs 5mo ago
  Did you miss the part where they said "it hasn't shipped"?
  - bastawhiz 5mo ago
    Do you think it won't? How many weeks do you think it'll take to review all that code, or do you admit a 1M line PR is unreviewable?
insane_dreamer 5mo ago
> They've been working on the rust rewrite for more than a month and it hasn't shipped doesn't make any difference the point is, users haven't been using it for years, like the original there is absolutely no way that you can internally test all the use cases that users encounter, especially with such a large code base

ghusto 5mo ago

That's like saying "It took me a month to hand-make this cupboard. If someone made a cupboard in just one day using a machine, do you think I'd trust it?".

happytoexplain 5mo ago
Only you can prevent tangential arguments about analogies.
- ghusto 5mo ago
  Took me a while to understand what you meant by this, and I hope I got it right: If I use a simile or analogie, people will argue about that instead of my point? Possibly, but my simile was strong enough to be an example. In fact, it's something that happened (still happens to some extent) in carpentry. Note well the absense of any argument against it, but the downvoting.
insane_dreamer 5mo ago
you totally missed the point; it's like: "thousands of people have bought, used and reviewed this hand-made cupboard over the past 10 years, so I can trust that it's good" vs "no one has used this cupboard that was made in one day, so I have no idea whether it's good or not" call me back in a couple of years and we'll talk