Why do you think the creator behind SerenityOS has no experience? I mean it’s not the most popular OS out there but he seems like a capable individual.
replyin case it's not glaringly obvious from the comment, he has plenty of cpp experience and little rust experience, and that's according to his own comments
replythe relevant bit here is that he's porting from a language in which he has plenty of experience into another one in which he doesn't, in a large project
that in itself sounds like putting a lot of faith in LLMs but maybe there are factors not mentioned here, which is why i said "on the surface"
Indeed, the hard part won't the port, but the maintenance of that which got ported. To be fair though, he's probably going to be able to use the same techniques for that.
replyIt's hard to articulate, but as someone who knows first hand, I just want to say that manic productivity is not the same as solid engineering.
replyDid you read the OP? No trust, only thorough verification.
replyI did, and the point stands because reading someone else's code is not the same as writing it, esp. when you're not able to do so to the same standard
replyNon sequitur. Again, no trust was involved, only verification through extreme testing.
replyAlso, as others have pointed out, "someone with no experience" simply isn't true.
the trust element to me is jumping into a port, not specific code although code you didn't write in a language you're not an expert with, will ALWAYS introduce an added risk of falling into pitfalls you can only avoid with experience, the more the merrier
replyyou're banking in the LLMs quite strongly when you do that, which may just work but i would be very worried about myself if i were in his boots
> code you didn't write
replyHe did write it.
> you're banking in the LLMs quite strongly when you do that, which may just work but i would be very worried about myself if i were in his boots
I too would worry if it were you doing it.