Comment by nicoburns
9 hours ago
> Holy hell HN, downvoted to -4 in record time. Y'all don't like what's happening, but it's really happening. > > I'm not lying about this. > > I provided my background so you'd understand the context of my claims. I have a solid background in tech.
There are lots of people claiming this. Many of whom have a solid background. Every now and then I check out someone's claim (checking the code they've generated). I've yet to find an AI-generated codebase that passed that check so far.
Perhaps yours is the one that does, but as we can't see the code for ourselves, there's no way for us to really know. And it's hard to take your word for it when there are so many people falsely making the same claims.
I expect a lot of HNers have had this experience.
Have you looked at antirez's code?
https://github.com/antirez/flux2.c
Generating code from scratch and modifying existing code are two different things, obviously the latter being where AI doesn't do great. Carefully managing and compressing context can somewhat help, but that is far from being a perfect solution.