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> What I’m wondering now is can we reliably evolve python and have codex act as an extremely unreliable transpiler to the rust. Why you even start with Python
by embedding-shape 2mo ago
> What I’m wondering now is can we reliably evolve python and have codex act as an extremely unreliable transpiler to the rust.
Why you even start with Python at this point? Just write the Rust version straight up instead of porting things?
Personally I used to use dynamic languages for most things, because development and maintenance is so much faster and easier, particularly for larger projects (granted you know how to work with those sort of languages), but now when the LLM writes most of the code, I'm able to work as fast with Rust as with I used to be able to do with Clojure or other dynamic languages.
- paganel 2mo agoWhat happens when LLMs will become either too expensive or unavailable?
- scronkfinkle 2mo agoIt's becoming increasingly evident this is not how things are going to shake out. Even without frontier models, running Qwen 3.8 27B has demonstrated for me and others a "good enough" competency at general programming. Additionally, large open weight models have proven themselves as viable alternatives and we're still in the early years of dedicated hardware
- embedding-shape 2mo agoI guess lots of Rust developers will find a lot of employment? I mean what happens with network engineers when the biggest network of them all goes down?
- paganel 2mo agoThis AI thing is not at all similar to networking. It is up to a point, but in fact it isn’t.
- embedding-shape 2mo agoI'm not saying developing with LLMs is the same as network engineering. The point being that almost all professions have some point of failures, that sometimes when we work, that single point is broken, yet we need to continue working anyway. Same goes for every professional almost.
- te_chris 2mo agoBecause it’s a port of a scientific process and that’s what the scientists work in.
- embedding-shape 2mo agoAh, sorry, I didn't understood you weren't the original author of the program you're porting :) Cheers for the additional context.