Hm that's strange. I have 300mbit here and the entire WASM blob is 30mb, it really should go through fast. It's hosted by Deno as a WebSocket proxy and file server.
I'm wondering if it's mostly the WASM setup itself (after transfer).
I got a chuckle over this, but in my experience working on legacy systems, this is the case already. Using AI to translate/explain the code brings extra understanding.
If what you want is the "Why", you're right it probably won't get it right. It'll just give you baseless speculation. But if what you want is the "What" or the "How", I think it can be useful.
Yes, it would take a long time for humans to remake a documentation from the codebase itself, but AI could do that much quicker and with close to perfect accuracy, Code is superior to documentation as it's the direct intended behavior (including bugs), in a sense, we won't even need documentation in the future, except maybe to lower AI costs.
Whilst true, it's not without its gotchas, and I saw a video the other day that elegantly highlights this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6MAZW-joCo. A false sense of confidence is bad; one that is offloaded onto somebody else is another.
The senior should also start using AI to increase the amount of work done to stabilise the system, in a careful manner. More benchmarks, better testing, better safety net when delivering software, automated security reviews, better instrumentation, and so on.
> And this is how AI affects the two loops
There should be another image illustrating that the amount of mitigations done from senior side, red-/blue-team style.
I have the same experience. Maybe I’ve used the same amount of time getting the rewrite out, but the amount of quality checking have increased for me. Before, I would probably not bother to create end to end tests and benchmarks, but now the mental cost for being extra vigilant is so cheap.
My rewrite is running stable in production for two weeks with 50x speedup, which have made the doomed old solution viable again.
Wonder what this will mean for future legacy projects and how how we should structure the programs to be inside “rewrite with llm”-size? Maybe a renessanse for microservices?
Looks very interesting. Especially like that language environment is abstracted away, through cli, such that one are not stuck with for example python to write your UI logic (or create your own cli wrapper around PyAutoGUI).
How can one help with implementing Linux and Windows support?
Can you elaborate on this? I’m facing a similar decision in my org and think sharing a common database store sounds smart. With rules of course, like clear ownership of data, only one writer, etc.
Of course it does, but this proposal entails banning search engines, right? I can imagine definitions of "advertising" that don't encompass search, but this author doesn't intend them; he explicitly states that he is not just classifying "paid" advertising of products as advertising but all "third-party" advertising, "full stop", and acknowledges this would make Google "cease to exist" in its "current form". He clearly intends his proposal to include banning search engines, entirely.
You do not need to solve that at the language level. A common pattern is using multiple replicas, service discovery and automatic restart upon a dead replica. For example kubernetes does this out of the box.
For dark corners of the code, that is often a good middle ground between interrupting the service and never die.
Sure, it's a good idea to have something like that just in case. But crashing is really not desirable and could cause all kinds of problems, even if you do have recovery mechanisms in place.
A crash in a web server could result in data loss, timeouts and performance issues on clients due to the response never coming back, crashes on poorly written clients, cascading failures in poorly written services, etc.
And for a client application, imagine if your web browser would just randomly crash sometimes. Do you think it would make it much better if the browser would detect the crash and relaunch itself? And what if it relaunches itself and then crashes again for the same reason?
