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Comment by satvikpendem

2 months ago

> I do systems programming.

I'll stop you right there. AI is not good at systems programming, it's good at CRUD web development, which is where most people are seeing the gains.

I think antirez mentioned somewhere he considered it particularly good at systems programming.

  • Depends what it's used for, generally I've seen that due to the paucity of C or Rust etc training data vs Javascript and TypeScript, LLMs aren't as good at the former vs the latter.

This is a myth in my experience. LLMs are good at all the kinds of programming I've tried using them on, including many cases that are very far from "CRUD web development".

>95% of software development is crud.

  • It's really not, though. As soon as systems have to scale, regulatory requirements come in, etc. it becomes more complex.

    AI has solved simple CRUD, yes, but CRUD, was easy before.