Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by satvikpendem on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @02:27AM (#48032945)

> I do systems programming.

I'll stop you right there. AI is not good at systems programming, it's good at CRUD web development, which is where most people are seeing the gains.

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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by Traubenfuchs on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @05:47AM (#48034299)

>95% of software development is crud.

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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by id on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @06:40AM (#48034676)

It's really not, though. As soon as systems have to scale, regulatory requirements come in, etc. it becomes more complex.

AI has solved simple CRUD, yes, but CRUD, was easy before.

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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by oytis on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @07:27AM (#48034975)

I think antirez mentioned somewhere he considered it particularly good at systems programming.

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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by satvikpendem on Friday May 08, 2026 @12:28AM (#48058569)

Depends what it's used for, generally I've seen that due to the paucity of C or Rust etc training data vs Javascript and TypeScript, LLMs aren't as good at the former vs the latter.

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Re:Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size... by dboreham on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @11:19AM (#48037266)

This is a myth in my experience. LLMs are good at all the kinds of programming I've tried using them on, including many cases that are very far from "CRUD web development".

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