I'm going to take it that you were being sarcastic.
However, in the case of the apt cacher, the DDoS of Ubuntu infrastructure showed that the existing apt cachers left a *LOT* of room for improvement, not to mention that apt-cacher-ng has regularly (over the last 13 years of use) gotten wedged and needed intervention.
This cacher understands Deb package repo structure, and when it finds new meta-data it grabs and checks the meta-data, downloads new version of any package you regularly download (configurable), and then makes a snapshot of that, which it then promotes for cache users to see.
I can shut down my Internet connection and then install a fresh Ubuntu from ISO, then "apt update; apt dist-upgrade" successfully via the cache.
If you are saying that AI isn't solving novel problems, you are waaaaaay off.
But you're also missing the point: This branch of the conversation is about AI tools writing wildly inflated code. Which I proposed a few data-points refuting.
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I'm going to take it that you were being sarcastic.
However, in the case of the apt cacher, the DDoS of Ubuntu infrastructure showed that the existing apt cachers left a *LOT* of room for improvement, not to mention that apt-cacher-ng has regularly (over the last 13 years of use) gotten wedged and needed intervention.
This cacher understands Deb package repo structure, and when it finds new meta-data it grabs and checks the meta-data, downloads new version of any package you regularly download (configurable), and then makes a snapshot of that, which it then promotes for cache users to see.
I can shut down my Internet connection and then install a fresh Ubuntu from ISO, then "apt update; apt dist-upgrade" successfully via the cache.
If you are saying that AI isn't solving novel problems, you are waaaaaay off.
But you're also missing the point: This branch of the conversation is about AI tools writing wildly inflated code. Which I proposed a few data-points refuting.