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Re:AutoDev: Automated AI-driven development by Microsoft by mkleczek on Sunday March 17, 2024 @03:05AM (#39732495)
What you are describing is a pipe dream of software reuse. People try to do it from the very beginning of IT industry with mixed results.

The devil is in the details - your mixture of features is different than mine. We have constant upgrade of video codecs that offer more capabilities. We have unavoidable security issues that need to be somehow addressed (by version upgrades or replacing some components). Etc, etc, etc...

IMO it is quite arrogant to claim "all problems are the same problem" - they are not even though they might look similar.

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Re:AutoDev: Automated AI-driven development by Microsoft by 93po on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @11:10AM (#39767722)
I agree that the premise of software reuse with humans is not realistic. However my point being that an LLM trained on the entirety of available code could realistically mix and match features across different pieces of software and build something cohesive
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