Remember mythos ? I was half-expecting them to scare us with a new danger: How AI can covert code into other languages, and confuse the hell out of all of us.
This was suspected from the start. The PR was always going to be merged, and Anthropic was going to have their success story. Any lip service paid to "well maybe we'll merge it and maybe we won't, I dunno yet" was just that: lip service.
And it is good for mental health - it allows us to express the distaste for Anthropic in a healhy way.
I couldn't come up with a clearer example of how this kind of stuff fails to apply to my work. If I shipped nineteen regressions in 2 weeks, my company would be desperately apologizing to our customers, not writing a blog post about what a great job I did.
0.02 defects per KLOC is a low density, even considering that it was "just" a port to a new language and before giving credit for the existing bugs it identified and fixed. That defect density will probably only generalize to other projects that have similarly extensive regression test suites, but it's a proof of what LLMs can do.
Such a terribly bad faith take. I feel upset reading this more than I should have.
Obviously "regressions" is not a great measure (how serious were they?) but 19 seems pretty decent to me.
It really blows my mind how some AI naysayers like you fail the absolute basic common sense test of comparing the comparable. If you, without AI, merged nineteen regressions in 2 weeks, how much work has actually been done? How many features did you rewrite? How many refactors did you make and how difficult were they?
Insane...
"Working on a feature" and "Working on a language-to-language port of 1M LOC" are NOT the same thing.
You're also still bringing up "regression per day", while ignoring the fact that without AI, this would have taken easily ~4000 days. Which is 1 regression per 0.003 calendar day. Not the same.
And you still aren't addressing sibling comments reminding you that these aren't shipped migrations. I'll second the comment asking you whether your code is always perfect first-shot, because if we're going to count those bugs, we might be well above your 1/day number.
Fuck, man, this used to be hacker news, a place where curiosity is rewarded.