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buttrpopcorn··on Morgan Stanley's AI parsed 9M lines of code, saving 15K devs 280K hours
> Though the tool can, in theory, rewrite code from an older language to a newer one, it doesn't know how to write the new code efficiently or as well as a human developer, Pizzi said.

From what I've seen, one popular use of coding agents is to refactor code. Wouldn't it be easier to create a non-ai scanner, parser, translator for the perl codebase and let AI run and refactor it? At that point human devs can come in, look out for inefficiencies and tackle bugs on a nearly-functional codebase?

buttrpopcorn··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)
Hmm, People from companies in different stages post here. It's a pretty diverse mix from small to large companies.

The real issue is people, visiting one of these pages, seeing all the posts and interrupting users having valid interactions with dull-witted questions like "what makes you think ....".

What makes you think you can speak for all posters on HN? Are you linkedin?

buttrpopcorn··on Show HN: Wrote a JSON parser from scratch in go
Just out of curiosity, what was your motivation to make this?
buttrpopcorn··on I run a software book club
I'd love to attend one in the bay. Seems like a prime crowd to target for this.

Please let me know if you find any. Happy to help start one too.