alt Hacker News"Even it that'd be the best code and design in the world, I won't use it. I don't trust it."
Nothing about this sentence makes sense. What don't you trust about code you can see and audit yourself? What's untrustworthy about "the best code and design in the world"?
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It's called "mileage". This new codebase doesn't have any. Who knows what gremlins lurk in some of its darker corners.
First word of second sentence:
> Stability
ie: lack of volatility, ie: integrity, ie: I know it does what it says and don’t have to second guess that.
I do not agree with OP but to not understand “i don’t have the knowledge and/or resources to audit/review a language port of an entire JS runtime, but I still understand that a big-bang language port is something to be cautious of” is almost wilful tonedeafness
How can you trust that they won't just rug pull all of the code you've hand-audited when they merge some 1800 file PR written by an LLM? Even if you decide to hold off on any security updates or minor bumps until you can hand audit again, what's the point? You could just go back to Node where they aren't engaging in a modern day Ship of Theseus every other week.
I don't have the time to audit all the code in a JavaScript runtime myself, so I am forced to make assumptions about the quality of the code based on my trust of the authors.
Additionally, even if the code is good today, I am trusting their process will produce good code tomorrow (as migrating to/from bun has a non-trivial cost). A single person approving the code of an LLM is not such a process with today's technology.