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roflmaostctoday at 1:25 PM1 replyview on HN

I am fully aware of the costs and so on. But i can certainly imagine that LLMs help with the process of understanding and editing old code.

And of course you need to test and debug before you ship to production.


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Rohansitoday at 3:06 PM

> i can certainly imagine that LLMs help with the process of understanding and editing old code.

Can you trust it with assembly language for a custom-built CPU with its own instruction set? Even if you digitized all of the documentation you have no idea what was lost since 1977 (or earlier), or what was never written down to begin with.