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0 pointseternityforest5mo ago0 comments

Why would I want to have an extra thing to maintain, on top of having to manually review, debug, and write tests for a language I don't like that much?

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ActorNightly5mo ago

You don't have to maintain it. LLMs are really good at following direction.

I have a custom agent that can take python code, translates it to C, does a refactoring job to include a mempool implementation (so that memory is allocated once at the start of the program and instead of malloc it grabs chunks out of mempool), runs cppcheck, uploads to a container, and runs it with valgrind.

Been using it since ChatGPT3 - the only updates I did to it was API changes to call different providers. Doesn't use any agent/mcp/tools thing either, pure chat.

eternityforestOP5mo ago

There's always going to be some maintenance, at the very least the API changes for providers you mentioned, and then there's still the reviews and testing of the C.

A mempool seems very much like a DIY implementation of malloc, unless you have fixed size allocations or something else that would make things different, not sure why I'd want that in the general case.

For "non hacker style" production code it just seems like a lot of extra steps.

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