It just an anchor. If it were 50k would you say the same down to 25k? And if so how many more times would it apply?

The interesting thing is that it was manageable solo (in many ways it's _more_ manageable solo+AIs than with coworkers+(their)AIs), and in such a short amount of time.

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kikimora 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Original RSL library is 36k LoC. And this is C++. Rust should be like 50% smaller, that is, 18k LoC. This library is so big that I bet the author has no idea if it works or not. 1300 test generated by AI say nothing about actual quality.

In the end it is just a lot of unmaintainable code quickly generated by AI.

	▲	ndr 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		This is uncharitable, but makes a prediction. I imagine you'd bet the author won't be successfully using this, at MS/Uber or wherever they are, in a year time? Rust makes no promise of being terser than C++, and RSL does less than this considering the optimization. Also it's only 45/50k LOC so not so very from the 36k LOC.
	▲	zahlman 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Has Rust code generally been found shorter than C++ in practice? I don't see an obvious reason for it.

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rimliu 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

the interesting thing is how fast it becomes unmanagable.

	▲	ndr 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Also that, I suspect that's correlated to how practical is to have multiple people (with their agents) iterating on it.