alt Hacker NewsThis is really YOLOing as the original author doesn't know Rust well so what happens if they hit some complex production issue LLM aren't aware of? Hiring an expensive consultant to fix that until the next LLM iteration?
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etcetera1 • today at 9:19 PM
> what happens if they hit some complex production issue
they learn Rust
it takes a couple of years
it's not that hard.
I'm as anti LLM use as they come, but this appears to be migrating libraries from already funcitoning C++ code. In the case of your hypothetical I suspect the course of action will be "shelve this library port until someone with domain expertise and Rust experience can look at it". Its not like he chucked the whole codebase at the GenaI gods and said "Port it to Rust!".