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Re:Introduction to Loro's Rich Text CRDT by cubefox on Tuesday January 23, 2024 @10:11PM (#39113156)
A while ago we would have said a computer program obviously can't guess the intent behind edits. But now we do have such programs: Language models. I wonder whether anyone has already used one to automatically solve merge conflicts.
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Re:Introduction to Loro's Rich Text CRDT by josephg on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @02:34AM (#39114631)
That’s a good idea that I’ve heard a lot of people suggest. But as far as I know nobody has actually implemented merging using a llm yet.

Part of the problem is that CRDTs want to have strong eventual consistency - so, after merging everyone should be looking at the same final result. It’s hard to guarantee that if you pass the conflicting data to a LLM.

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