The_Decryptor

And it’s also not like the hardware is improving much either, we’ve effectively hit the wall performance wise with processors and RAM.

That’s literally what all these datacenters are for, we can’t scale the individual computer performance up, so instead we build more and more of them.

The LLMs are wicked fast at reviewing code

That’s because it’s not actually reviewing the code, rather just producing text that statistically looks like review comments.

So it does look vaguely useful, e.g. if code has null checks, review comments usually won’t ask for them to be added, but it’s never actually reviewing, or understanding, or reasoning, or anything else people claim.

It’s like an actor playing a doctor in a TV show, they’re not actually diagnosing patients, they’re just following a script that looks like it.

Yeah any decision would be on a case by case basis, which is normally something you’d want to avoid.

I’ve seen a couple of Linux devs talk about how they just give a prompt to claude and walk away leaving it alone to spit out the code, none of which can be licensed as GPL. But good luck working out what specific lines of what specific patches of theirs used an LLM vs. were re-written or such.