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>I think it would be reasonable to ask which major open source projects aren't using AI assistance? Where are all the vast quantity of LLM commits for these op
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>I think it would be reasonable to ask which major open source projects aren't using AI assistance?
Where are all the vast quantity of LLM commits for these open source projects, if these engineers are truly 10xing their productivity with LLM code generation? Because I regularly browse the source of many of these, and can find almost no evidence that LLM code generation is anywhere near the level of productivity being claimed for:
1. ImGui
2. SFML
3. SDL
4. GLFW
5. OpenSSL
6. Linux
7. GCC
8. Clang/LLVM
9. Libc++/libstdc++/msstl
10. Rust
11. Godot
12. Nlohmann
13. Boost
14. Python
15. GNU tools
Etc etc. There are even more major projects, but these are just the critical ones I can think of off the top of my head. If you go for a browse though eg Godot, you might think that LLMs don't exist. In fact if you go for a browse through any of these, you might think that LLMs are borderline never used for code generation in the open source world. This is a diverse collection of random projects, and yet for some reason none of these have experienced a 10x increase in productivity in any form from any contributors from LLM code generation
>That is not why. Or at least not the majority of it
Its not the quantity, if maintainers were receiving incredibly high quality PRs that could just be merged, they'd be very happy. Godot is an example of a project that was initially pro LLM, and then had to about face because the PRs were just absolutely crap
>Some might be trash, some might be gold
Is there any evidence that any of these PRs have ever been gold?