Comment by bonzini

9 hours ago

A single PR for a 3000-line addition would, in all likelihood, be rejected anyway.

Really depends the author and context. Large PRs are often justified for compiler work, you have a lot of pieces to touch at the same time

Doubt it: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/24536

  • When somebody comments PR with “Incredible work, Jacob. It is an honor to call you my colleague.” then it's safe to assume it's out of the ordinary contribution. Pretty much falling outside of the “in all likelyhood”.

    3000 line LLM commit is not that.

    • Also 95% of those 30k lines changed are fully self-contained inside of the aarch64 directory and of the remaining changes it looks like the majority is just adding "aarch64" as another item into an existing list. There are a few core changes that to me look like they could be done in their own PRs, but also core maintainers get to decide if they want to apply bureaucracy to their own work.

    • How would you differentiate a 3000 line LLM commit made by the best models and good AI processes from a 3000 line commit made by the best human developer?

      edit Okay, I set the bar too high here with "best human developer" and vague "good AI processes". My bad. Yes, LLM is not quite there yet.

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  • Very different context: that PR is from a maintainer, and trusted member of Zig, which surely discussed the implementation/design internally as well