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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/52190045

Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030

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[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 30 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

And 1 million lines to truly review. Reviewers are used to their own heuristics based on common and critical mistakes to find errors. I reckon AI errors won't follow familair patterns, making reviews even more tedious.

[–] reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nobody is truly reviewing that stuff. Would you if you were in that job? Just blame mistakes on AI

[–] SpicyLizards@reddthat.com 3 points 1 day ago

Well, being the job and all, yes. But also set expectations, which there cannot be any based on the nothing job ad. Woudlt touch that with a 10ft pole.

[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 23 points 2 days ago

Yeah…

Human mistakes tend to 1) look like mistakes, and 2) are surrounded by lots of hints that the author had trouble with that section of code.

AI mistakes tend to 1) look like regular code, and 2) look just as confident and effort-ful as the rest of the code.