alt Hacker News> And I mean starting from scratch, not using the messy Libreoffice code base.
Given the libreoffice codebase is in its dataset, is that really from scratch?
> And I mean starting from scratch, not using the messy Libreoffice code base.
Given the libreoffice codebase is in its dataset, is that really from scratch?
I guess that means none of what a professional software engineer does is from scratch either, given that they're also trained on existing code.
Kind of hard to write code when you haven't seen a lot of it.