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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by weatherlite on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:12AM (#43014544)
There's no need for tens of millions of OS Kernel devs , most of us are writing business logic CRUD apps.

Also, it's not entirely clear to me why LLMs should get extremely good in web app development but not OS development, as far as I can see it's the amount and quality of training data that counts.

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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by wesselbindt on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:30AM (#43014792)
> as far as I can see it's the amount and quality of training data that counts

Well there's your reason. OS code is not as in demand or prevalent as crud web app code, so there's less relevant data to train your models on.

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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by woah on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:15PM (#43016114)
The OS code that exists is much higher quality so the signal to noise ratio is much better
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Re:Why Firing Programmers for AI Will Destroy Everything by wesselbindt on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:33PM (#43016387)
I think arguably there's still a quantity issue, but I'm no expert on LLMs. Plus I hear the windows source code is a bit of a nightmare. But for every windows there's a TempleOS I suppose.
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