alt Hacker NewsYou presented another thing LLMs excel at: integrating something from a project that is not present in another one. I think they work so well at this because both the starting and ending points have an already existing structure, so the LLM can guide itself effectively. In your case it's even more egregious because we are talking about the same exact algorithm/functionality implemented in two different, but rather similar, programming languages.
Could you have manually profiled and compared the execution paths? Sure. Could you have translated the C++ optimizations to C#? Sure. But in such an obvious case, the LLM managed itself.
Yeah. LLMs are also great at reading and understanding thousands of lines of code quickly. It can find things like this - or compare disparate implementations.
I’ve been using fable recently not to write code, but to write briefing notes on projects. “Read and compare these three libraries. What are the unique differences in their implementations? Why were those ideas chosen? What are the pros and cons of those designs? What ideas would you copy into a new project? Write a report on your findings.”