Comment by geon
2 hours ago
Wouldn't the same improvements have been made in zig if they instructed the agents to improve instead of rewrite?
2 hours ago
Wouldn't the same improvements have been made in zig if they instructed the agents to improve instead of rewrite?
Maybe they'd get the same numeric improvements and bug fixes today (or maybe not, or maybe they'd get even more since the LLM isn't spending time rewriting correct code).
But they wouldn't get a change to the structural issues that created the issues in the first place. They'd end up "ke[eping] fixing these kinds of bugs one-off in perpetuity".
But how would you verify that the agents have written memory safe code? Rust's borrowchecker is a lot faster and actually verifiably safe compared to asking an LLM to fix the safety issues that the Zig version had.