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Good thing I work on an old C++ code base where it's impossible for AI to go through the millions of lines that all interact horribly in unpredictable ways.
by porise 9mo ago
Good thing I work on an old C++ code base where it's impossible for AI to go through the millions of lines that all interact horribly in unpredictable ways.
- devttyeu 9mo agoFunny you mention that, I have very recently just came back from a one-shot prompt which fixed a rather complex template instantiation issue in a relatively big very convoluted low-level codebase (lots of asm, SPDK / userspace nvme, unholy shuffling of data between numa domains into shared l3/l2 caches). That codebase maybe isn't in millions of lines of code but definitely is complex enough to need a month of onboarding time. Or you know, just give Claude Opus 4.5 a lldb backtrace with 70% symbols missing due to unholy linker gymnastics and get a working fix in 10 mins. And those are the worst models we will have used from now on.
- porise 9mo agoTemplate instantiation is relatively simple and can be resolved immediately. Trying to figure out how 4 different libraries interact with undefined behavior to boot is not going to be easy for AI for a while.
- grim_io 9mo agoMaybe LLMs can't fix all of the human deficiencies in the past.
- Yeask 9mo agoIs all marketing, it does not even work with js frontend frameworks.