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habinerolast Tuesday at 1:11 AM1 replyview on HN

Not really, no. Both of those projects are tinkertoy greenfield projects, done by people who know exactly what they're doing.

And both of them heavily caveat that experience:

> This only works if you have the capacity to review what it produces, of course. (And by “of course”, I mean probably many people will ignore this, even though it’s essential to get meaningful, consistent, long-term value out of these systems.)

> To be clear: this isn't an endorsement of using models for serious Open Source libraries...Treat it as a curious side project which says more about what's possible today than what's necessarily advisable.

It does nobody any good to oversell this shit.


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simonwlast Tuesday at 1:16 AM

A compiler optimization for LLVM is absolutely not a "tinkertoy greenfield projects".

I linked to those precisely because they aren't over-selling things. They're extremely competent engineers using LLMs to produce work that they would not have produced otherwise.