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can you enlighten me, what exactly do you learn from asking a llm to do a rewrite?
by byzantinegene 3mo ago
can you enlighten me, what exactly do you learn from asking a llm to do a rewrite?
- josefrichter 3mo agoNo, I can’t. The way you frame your question tells me you’re not seeking enlightenment.
- solid_fuel 3mo agoIt's a very fair and generous way to frame the question, considering you like seeing these rewrites for "learning".
- subarctic 3mo agoI mean you can learn a lot. You can learn what's possible with less effort to build a proof of concept. It's kind of like you had another engineer do it for you, you don't completely learn how to do it yourself but you can still learn a lot with much less effort
- mahogany 3mo agoYou would learn way more by asking an LLM how postgres works. Nobody is even reading this Rust code. There are 7000 commits over 2 weeks. What is being learned from that?
- hexo 3mo agoexactly zero knowledge gained. all former expert understanding is buried down in slop so it is inaccessible and will be completely inaccessible once slop-machine stops
- subarctic 3mo agoYou learn that you can build a version of Postgres that passes the tests and improves on these benchmarks in rust. You gain access to a codebase that does it which you can learn a lot from too. Definitely not zero like someone else said
- hexo 3mo agowell, it accelerates icebergs meltdown. so it helps...