I believe they can make ANY software project the largest it can be!

This solution should look for more problems.

linsomniac 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

You say that, but I asked Codex to build a Asteroids (but FPS) as a web app, and it wrote it in under 4K LOC, and a Tempest implementation in 6.5K LOC. Those seem like really reasonable line counts to me.

I also built a caching proxy server for apt packages, that's a bigger project, and that is 30.5K lines of golang, which doesn't seem bad compared to apt-cacher-ng which is 19.3K of C++ (my project does significantly more).

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thisisauserid 4 days ago | parent [-]

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	▲	linsomniac 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm going to take it that you were being sarcastic. However, in the case of the apt cacher, the DDoS of Ubuntu infrastructure showed that the existing apt cachers left a LOT of room for improvement, not to mention that apt-cacher-ng has regularly (over the last 13 years of use) gotten wedged and needed intervention. This cacher understands Deb package repo structure, and when it finds new meta-data it grabs and checks the meta-data, downloads new version of any package you regularly download (configurable), and then makes a snapshot of that, which it then promotes for cache users to see. I can shut down my Internet connection and then install a fresh Ubuntu from ISO, then "apt update; apt dist-upgrade" successfully via the cache. If you are saying that AI isn't solving novel problems, you are waaaaaay off. But you're also missing the point: This branch of the conversation is about AI tools writing wildly inflated code. Which I proposed a few data-points refuting.

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marginalia_nu 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah came here to say the same thing. The Hard Problem of software engineering isn't making a complex monstrosity with millions of lines of code and endless feature creep, but not doing that. This was as true 20 years as it is today.

	▲	AlotOfReading 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I apologize for such a big program — I didn't have enough tokens to write a small one. - my coworkers

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anothermathbozo 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The benchmark does not reward producing more code.