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valid point. I am usually okay with LLM generated code since even if it might not be architecturally sound It is usually well commented and has tests and documentation for helping another agent/human debug any issues.
But, just the painful experience of debugging any dlopen related crashes and/or intermittent bugs; and the sheer amount of tokens burnt by an LLM chasing tangents when shown a stack trace; I wouldn’t touch this at least as a packager/consumer of certain apps for personal usage on older distros. So far, AnyLinux-Appimages seem to be a mature solution with great support from the developers, in case anyone lands here for packaging applications to run on older distros.
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> So far, AnyLinux-Appimages seem to be a mature solution with great support from the developers, in case anyone lands here for packaging applications to run on older distros.
The Linux ecosystem already settled on containers to solve the problem. Namely Docker, Flatpak, Podman ec.
Modern models, when properly managed with a human in the loop, write higher-quality code than humans and introduce significantly fewer bugs. Therefore, it's quite the opposite - you should expect fewer "dlopen-related crashes and/or intermittent bugs."