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0 pointsLeFantome2mo ago0 comments

> Soon it will do everything better and faster than me

There is no evidence of that coming from this post. The work was highly directly by an extremely skilled engineer. As he points out, it was small chunks. What chunks and in what order were his decision.

Is AI re-writing those chunks much faster than he could. Yes. Very much so. Is it doing it better? Probably not. So, it is mostly just faster when you are very specific about what it should do. In other words, it is not a competitor. It is a tool.

And the entire thing was constrained by a massive test suite. AI did not write that. It does not even understand why those tests are the way they are.

This is a long way from "AI, write me a JavaScript engine".

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rzerowan2mo ago

Id put it as a example of a carpenter preparing their material with a lathe and circular saw vs one working with a handsaw and chisel.

Both will get a skilled craftsman to the point where thie output is a quality piece of work. Using the autotoools to prepare the inputs allows velocity and consistency.

Main issue is the hype and skiddies who would say - feed this tree into a machine and get a cabinet.Producing non-detrministic outputs with the operator being unable to adjust requirements on the fly or even stray from patterns/designs that havent been trained yet.

The tools have limitiations and the operators as well , and the hype does adisservice to what would be establishing reasonable patterns of usage and best practices.