Comment by muyuu
1 day ago
it's very odd that someone with no experience would take a big project like this and just jump to another language because he trusts the AI generated code of current models
if it works it works i guess, but it seems mad to me on the surface
Why do you think the creator behind SerenityOS has no experience? I mean it’s not the most popular OS out there but he seems like a capable individual.
in case it's not glaringly obvious from the comment, he has plenty of cpp experience and little rust experience, and that's according to his own comments
the relevant bit here is that he's porting from a language in which he has plenty of experience into another one in which he doesn't, in a large project
that in itself sounds like putting a lot of faith in LLMs but maybe there are factors not mentioned here, which is why i said "on the surface"
Indeed, the hard part won't the port, but the maintenance of that which got ported. To be fair though, he's probably going to be able to use the same techniques for that.
It's hard to articulate, but as someone who knows first hand, I just want to say that manic productivity is not the same as solid engineering.
Did you read the OP? No trust, only thorough verification.
I did, and the point stands because reading someone else's code is not the same as writing it, esp. when you're not able to do so to the same standard
Non sequitur. Again, no trust was involved, only verification through extreme testing.
Also, as others have pointed out, "someone with no experience" simply isn't true.
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