On: Port of the TypeScript compiler, checker and lsp to Rust, by LLM

[mexicocitinluez]

I don't know that I agree, especially with LLMs as they are right now.

Maintainability isn't just for humans. An LLM working in an unmaintainable codebase has the same problems we do. It doesn't necessarily follow that if your code can pass your tests today then it will be able to pass the tests of tomorrow. I'm in healthcare. Regulations and payor rules change constantly. I don't know what tomorrow will bring, but I do know that the code I have an LLM generate tends to focus on the here and now (at the expense of the future). Sometimes that's okay, though. I don't know much about writing a compiler, so it could theoretically work.

This is by no means an anti-AI post (I use the hell out of these tools). But I can still see the cracks in them.

[epolanski → mexicocitinluez]

Your comment would've made sense in 2024, not now.

[Rapzid → epolanski]

Why doesn't their comment make sense?

[epolanski → Rapzid]

Because there's no evidence LLMs struggle to maintain or add features to complex codebases.

[mexicocitinluez → epolanski]

https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03823