Comment by falcor84

1 day ago

Wait, why? This is exactly what I as a human would have said in this situation.

Or if you're referring to how the OP still decided to go ahead, I've seen AIs go ahead on impractical courses of action many times, and surprisingly succeed on some of them.

in fairness to the LLM critics, every time i ran into a minor speed bump in this project, it told me it probably just wasn't possible to get it to work well. the LLM did pretty actively discourage me from trying to get the whole thing working.

that said, since i was willing to ignore that aspect of it, it did accelerate getting the work done by a lot. it seems like it understands system programming really well, and did a good job navigating the qemu codebase. i have ~20 years of systems programming experience so i already knew what had to be done here. it didn't really guide the project much, but it did write a lot of the code.