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hunterpayne 3 hours ago

No. This is system code. You let an LLM loose on it, it probably fixed 20 bugs and introduces 200 more plus 5 different performance regressions. In all fairness, your average app programmer would have the same problems. That's why it takes so long to learn to be a system programmer and why it takes so long to do anything on a systems source base. For reference, systems are OSes, DBs and compilers (although compilers are very different in many ways).

Also, you can successfully sell a systems project that is only 10% faster. 30000x faster and they are throwing illegal and debauched things through your window to get access to your improvements.

skinfaxi 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> No. This is system code. You let an LLM loose on it, it probably fixed 20 bugs and introduces 200 more plus 5 different performance regressions.

What does it being system code have to do with anything?

hunterpayne 6 minutes ago | parent [-]

The brittleness and difficult of writing the code. The extra complexity. The cost of bugs. And ease of creating performance degradations. If you are even asking that question, you probably don't have the experience to even have an opinion on this.

Most systems code has to be "canonical". That means it can't be improved. Imagine the most difficult PR review you have ever had. Now give the reviewers OCD and an extra 30 IQ points. And every single code change has to live up to this standard. That's what it has to do with this.