| ▲ | verdverm 10 hours ago |
| one does not just "throw tokens" at a problem, Ai is not that capable, and we are talking about MS Office file format, likely a NP hard problem |
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| ▲ | vb-8448 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| But in case they succeed the return on image will be astonishing. |
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| ▲ | doc_ick 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Can you expand upon this? | | |
| ▲ | vb-8448 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | A full implementation/rewrite of something like word, which is pretty complex and the quantity of edge cases is insane, in a relatively short amount of time, months, is very hard. If they succeed with AI it will be huge: it's basically not possible to do it today with humans, no matter how many people you put on the job. | | |
| ▲ | doc_ick 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I would agree a full rewrite of word which is very complex and take quite a bit of time. It would be impressive of AI to make a 80% rewrite, though I fully doubt it would cover the 100% rewrite (disregarding long term support as well). Why do you think it’s impossible for humans to rewrite word, especially even humans made it in the first place? |
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| ▲ | sigbottle 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I mean, aside from all the NP Hard sub problems (I might not be reading your satire though), the real hard problem is that a "product" is not just software, but an ecosystem and a promise of maintenance of the abstract user experience & quality of it. |
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| ▲ | cpursley 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| AI is especially good at ports like this where there’s a known and well tested surface area. |
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| ▲ | johnsmith1840 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | *that only microsoft has access to. These guys puposely obscure controls and understanding of these products 100% to prevent you doing a port. Just go open a microsoft word doc in the browser and look at the dom. Despair! Horror! | | |
| ▲ | doc_ick 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | Especially when there are three different versions, and each has a different team, and they all can work together at the same time. Crazy amount of tech supporting it that breaks a humans context let alone a models context. |
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| ▲ | verdverm 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | "ports like this" skips the part about Microsoft/enterprise software having a known and well tested surface area, the few examples we've seen are exceptional cases I suspect |
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