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Re:Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude C... by ctoth on Monday January 26, 2026 @11:40AM (#46767834)
Wait until you start working with us imperfect humans!
Re:Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude C... by Ronsenshi on Monday January 26, 2026 @12:03PM (#46768196)
Humans do have capacity for reasoning, at least. Which helps. LLMs do not. So would you trust somebody who can reason or somebody who can guess?
Re:Porting 100k lines from TypeScript to Rust using Claude C... by galangalalgol on Monday January 26, 2026 @01:02PM (#46769163)
People work different than llms they fond things we don't and the reverse is also obviously true. As an example, a stavk ise after free was found in a large monolithic c++98 codebase at my megacorp. None of the static analyzers caught it, even after modernizing it and getting clang tidy modernize to pass, nothing found it. Asan would have found it if a unit test had covered that branch. As a human I found it but mostly because I knew there was a problem to find. An llm found and explained the bug succinctly. Having an llm be a reviewer for merge requests males a ton of sense.