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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by jvanveen on Thursday October 31, 2024 @01:25AM (#42003750)
Not hours; but days instead of months: porting around 30k lines of legacy livescript project to typescript. Most of the work is in tweaking a prompt for Claude (using Aider) so the porting process is done correctly.
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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by cdchn on Thursday October 31, 2024 @01:44AM (#42003829)
Thankfully it seems like AI is best at automating the most tedious and arguably most useless endeavor in software engineering- rewriting perfectly good code in whatever the language du jour is.
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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by disgruntledphd2 on Thursday October 31, 2024 @03:25AM (#42004244)
Again, what AI is good at shows the revealed preferences of the training data, so it does make sense that it would excel at pointless rewrites.
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Re:Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new ... by protomolecule on Thursday October 31, 2024 @09:53AM (#42006933)
Legacy code in a dynamically typed language is never good.
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