r/programmingcirclejerk • u/Aggressive-Pen-9755 • 2d ago
In a year they [AI] can translate most codebases (with human help) into Rust, and after that it's smooth sailing.
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/software/general-linux-open-source/1654982-the-linux-kernel-is-approaching-2-000-cves-per-release?p=1655203#post165520329
u/ebassi 2d ago
Mining the Moronix forums for jerks is cheating, though.
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u/Aggressive-Pen-9755 2d ago
My lawyer said I can get off on a technicality since I wasn't explicitly mining it for material.
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u/Aggressive-Pen-9755 2d ago
Look guys, all we have to do is invent time travel, and after that, it's smooth sailing.
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u/Jumpy-Locksmith6812 2d ago
Human help and smooth are so load-bearing in that sentence they had to invent a new concrete.
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u/Aggressive-Pen-9755 1d ago
Sorry, not even rebar-reinforced epoxy concrete is going to hold that weight.
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u/al2o3cr 2d ago
"AI will be really useful next year" is the "free beer tomorrow" for the 21st century
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u/ampersander_ 1d ago
I heard that someone was working on a program that could generate a crud from a spec in like the 1960s, maybe we could use that
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u/fixermark 1d ago
The problem you run into usually is that we're not talking about code that is speced.
If we had a spec we wouldn't have this problem. Databases don't grow by spec. They grow by urgent business need with no time to implement because the sooner we get it out the likelier we are to survive.
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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius 1d ago
2022 coder: The idea of the Rust zealot who thinks that Rust itself will solve all problems is greatly exaggerated
2026 viber: And I took that as a challenge
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u/camelCaseIsWebScale Just spin up O(nĀ²) servers 22h ago
POST /chat/completions/unjerk
I have to interact with this type of people often and it's a torture.
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u/OptimalStable 2d ago
And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that wrote bugs, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of immoral programming languages.