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a recent attempt to rewrite SQLite in Rust using AI. "It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless."

Insurers, he said, are already lobbying state-level insurance regulators to win a carve-out in business insurance liability policies so they are not obligated to cover AI-related workflows. "That kills the whole system," Deeks said. Smiley added: "The question here is if it's all so great, why are the insurance underwriters going to great lengths to prohibit coverage for these things? They're generally pretty good at risk profiling."

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[–] artifex@piefed.social 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Also it’s probably incredibly difficult to optimize a huge LLM-generated codebase since there are no human authors who know it intimately to begin with.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

Having a stable set of individuals with a deep understanding of 'how things work' is so totally anathema to the modern paradigm of 'every coder is is a contractor, basically'.

Everybody wants to do software development, but doesn't want to foster software developers.

So, they try and build machine god to replace us, and as most of us predicted... didn't work out so well, but goddamnit, they'll burn a trillion dollars before they let their ego take a hit.

... oh well, I guess.