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Do we think that was necessary? What would have happened if OP had just asked it to rewrite and test/validate each piece as it went until everything is verified
by richstokes 15d ago
Do we think that was necessary? What would have happened if OP had just asked it to rewrite and test/validate each piece as it went until everything is verified and complete?
My gut feeling is this is doing way too much, and it would've figured it out.
- aka-rider 15d agoBut we know, Bun was 535496 lines for $165000. The whole point of this experiment was to try and make the rewrite as cheap as possible.
- never_inline 15d agoOh no, bun had quite a bit of machinery: https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust#loops-that-write-review-code https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust#loops-that-write-review-cod...
- aka-rider 15d agoTrue, the main problem is how to split the work. They decided to go file by file. To be fair, I haven't try exactly "rewrite in Rust" prompt, but I cannot imagine for this to work.
- UltraSane 15d agoconverting code to more abstract and denser representations and then manipulating them makes sense to me. Finding better representations is like half of mathematics.
- richstokes 13d agoIs code being converted to / represented in maths that much more helpful for an LLM that deals in language primarily, by definition? I have no idea, interesting though!