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Re:DeepSeek: X2 Speed for WASM with SIMD by magicalist on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @12:17PM (#42854971)
> "Yeah, but LLMs can't handle millions of lines of crufty old Java" is a guaranteed reply any time this topic comes up.

That's not at all what the GP was saying, though:

> There's no need to implement half the code, realize the requirements weren't specified properly, and go back and have a conversation with the PM about it. Which is, you know, what developers actually do.

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Re:DeepSeek: X2 Speed for WASM with SIMD by simonw on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @12:19PM (#42854993)
I was responding to this bit:

> This is the kind of stuff LLMs are great at, but it's not representative of a typical change request by Java Developer #1753 at Fortune 500 Enterprise Company #271.

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