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tptacekyesterday at 9:00 PM2 repliesview on HN

For now, maybe, yes? But the most important targets of this kind of work aren't AI outputs; it's legacy code, particularly (but not exclusively) old memory-unsafe code. In those situations the figure of merit isn't the token cost of recreating the target code; it's the cost of finding the same bugs with humans or preexisting tools.

Those costs can be extremely high.


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thisogoodyesterday at 9:37 PM

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ath3ndyesterday at 9:10 PM

Any newly produced AI code is immediately legacy and trash at the same time.