Comment by analog_daddy | Hacker News Reader

Comment by analog_daddy | Hacker News Reader

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Disclaimer: This is a user’s perspective rather than a programmer’s perspective.

valid point. I am usually okay with LLM generated code since even if it might not be architecturally sound It is usually well commented and has tests and documentation for helping another agent/human debug any issues.

But, just the painful experience of debugging any dlopen related crashes and/or intermittent bugs; and the sheer amount of tokens burnt by an LLM chasing tangents when shown a stack trace; I wouldn’t touch this at least as a packager/consumer of certain apps for personal usage on older distros. So far, AnyLinux-Appimages seem to be a mature solution with great support from the developers, in case anyone lands here for packaging applications to run on older distros.

Modern models, when properly managed with a human in the loop, write higher-quality code than humans and introduce significantly fewer bugs. Therefore, it's quite the opposite - you should expect fewer "dlopen-related crashes and/or intermittent bugs."

> Modern models, when properly managed with a human in the loop, write higher-quality code than humans and introduce significantly fewer bugs.

I don't think anybody believes this, and interjecting it into every thread is not really convincing anyone.

where is the study confirming this?

> So far, AnyLinux-Appimages seem to be a mature solution with great support from the developers, in case anyone lands here for packaging applications to run on older distros.

The Linux ecosystem already settled on containers to solve the problem. Namely Docker, Flatpak, Podman ec.

They require admin privileges. A consumer on an enterprise servers might not have them, which is where I would guess glibc might not be latest one. If you are an admin then sure those solutions can be feasible.

You don't need admin for Flatpak, Podman etc.

https://github.com/pkgforge-dev/Anylinux-AppImages/blob/main...

Wanna see those containers running in those old systems. Good luck getting flatpak to run on a kernel without PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS.

> kernel without PR_SET_NO_NEW_PRIVS

So basically no mainstream distro.

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