> Our implementation uses Highway's portable SIMD functions, so we do not have to re-implement about 3,000 lines of C++ for each platform.

Would they do the same thing today or have an LLM re-implement those 3000 lines of c++ ?

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atiedebee 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Id say that it is a lot more likely for the in-house, at least half a decade old library to be correct and performant than 3000 lines of an LLMs mediocre regurgitation of that code.

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glouwbug 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Guys, remember when language features allowed re-usability?

	▲	shadowgovt an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Barely, and rarely for C++ specifically. I think software engineering in general is in a bit of a discoverability crisis. So many problems actually have solutions implemented... Somewhere. If you know about them. And are speaking the same vocabulary as the original implementer to realize the solution might be applicable to your problem. It's one of the reasons that jokes exist about microservice frameworks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ) and how "We use Hadoop to store the output from our Kafka pipe, that's populated from our Traefik layer, all monitored with Grafana in front of Loki and Prometheus, of course" is a real sentence that has actual meaning and not a fever-dream. LLMs are actually pretty impressive at being able to pull together disparate information from various domains into one place.