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Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 (www.theregister.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 30 points 10 months ago (7 children)

reimplement … with help from AI

Meaning, it will have more bugs and less features after.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    I tried vibe coding a rust project and it was total ass.

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    AI doesn't reason, so it heavily depends on what's been presented in the training set.

    Python is everywhere and most importantly whatever you can think exists in Python, from critical bioinformatics tools to somebody learning programming from the first time and posting their prime number finder or sorting algorithm online.

    Rust? Not at that point yet, so the AI fails

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, for everything I've seen it's just a classical case of overfitment. I only tried it because it was recommended to me by a coworker. It failed at problem solving and choosing comparable dependencies. Completely jarring because like you said, it could likely do it in JS and Python. But clearly not Rust. I often wonder if the code you get from AI is +85% stolen verbatim.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I dunno man, I tried coding a simply http listener with an LLM one time in python (a language I'm unfamiliar with). Just something to sit on a port, listen for a request, and run a script.

    I ended up spending more time troubleshooting the maybe two dozen lines of code than I would have spent just looking up a tutorial online.

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