Post #1750807
2025-12-25 00:27 UTC
Replies (6)
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@edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2025-12-25 06:10
>Well, I expect it’ll be exciting, one way or another. This gives the curse "may you live in interesting times" vibes
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@plz1@lemmy.world 2025-12-25 06:54
You know it's going to be successful when they go back to using antiquated productivity measurements like measuring based on lines of code in a time frame. We all know AI is fucking spectacular at generating overly verbose code.
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@HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org 2025-12-25 07:18
> “Our strategy is to combine AI and Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases,” he added. “Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’” That's insane. Even a good engineer will frequently need years to fully understand one million lines of code - even if the code is organized very, very well. To compare, one million lines of program code might have around 100000 to 200000 unique symbols whose meaning and complex connections an engineer working with it has to learn and memorize. That's [far more than the average vocabulary one will learn in five years when learning a foreign language to a high skill level](https://languagelearning.stackexchange.com/questions/3061/what-are-estimates-of-vocabulary-size-for-each-cefr-level). Doing it in a month would be like learning to read and write fine Japanese or Arab literature in a month when you have never spoken a word in that language before. The Linux kernel has now passed [40 million lines of code](https://itsfoss.gitlab.io/post/linux-kernel-source-code-surpasses-40-million-lines/), written over 30 years by tens of thousands of master programmers. And that's kind of a historic achievement. What happens is that complexity increases sharply with each duplication of the amount of code.
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@umbrella@lemmy.ml 2025-12-25 06:19
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@Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2025-12-25 17:55
So to be paid I have to delete 1M lines of code every month. Gotcha.
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@bravesirrbn@lemmy.world 2025-12-26 10:59
I always love how business bros use the term "Algorithm(s)" (and now also "AI") as if that was just a magic incantation or something that you just switch on and it immediately solves whatever problem you might have. All that's needed is that the wizard comes up with the right spell and then everything just works and the business is generating infinite money!