The entire Linux kernel is about 40 million LoC, and only something like 16 million LoC after you remove drivers. I have a hard time imagining whatever OpenAI was talking about there having anywhere close to 6% as much utility as the Linux kernel, despite having 6% as many lines of code. And I have a hard time imagining it's anywhere close to maintainable, regardless of how powerful their LLMs might be.

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esperent 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To be fair, few things of any number of LOC have as much utility as the Linux kernel, and it's also a particularly dense example of code. There's plenty of other examples that have higher LOC / utility ratio without being vibe coded. For example, Google's monorepo famously has 2 billion LOC, which is a statistic I've heard long before LLM coding took over.

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jeffbee an hour ago | parent [-]

Clarification: Google claimed to have 2 billion lines of code in their repo ten years ago, and a commit rate of 50,000 changelists per day, both on exponential growth trends.

	▲	zaphar an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That's a monorepo with hundreds if not thousands of different applications. It's not even close to an apples to apples comparison.

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strulovich 42 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Linux kernel is not in any way at top of big projects. A kernel, as the name suggests, deals with specific issues and tries to remain small.

The world’s biggest software is usually built over endless adapters of different data and a need to reconcile endless edge cases with laws, regulations and real world complexities.

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dist-epoch an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Chrome has 50 mil LoC

https://openhub.net/p/chrome/analyses/latest/languages_summa...

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skydhash an hour ago | parent [-]

Chrome is basically reinventing each OS API and libraries. One day they’ll have their own tcp stack and packet filter.

	▲	robotresearcher 33 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Chrome still has a way to go until Zawinski's Law is satisfied natively. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
	▲	getnormality an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		It kinda makes sense given that one of their major products is a computer that runs an operating system literally called ChromeOS.
	▲	jeffbee an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Arguably with QUIC it already does.