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Writing Redis from scratch in Zig.
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johnisgood ◴[] No.45308123[source]
Seems like LLMs are getting good at Zig (with some help, I presume).
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mtlynch ◴[] No.45308193[source]
Is there anything about this project that seems LLM-generated?

I've found that LLMs are particularly bad at writing Zig because the language evolves quickly, so LLMs that are trained on Zig code from two years ago will write code that no longer compiles on modern Zig.

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jasonjmcghee ◴[] No.45308798[source]
I skimmed, for me it was this: https://github.com/barddoo/zedis/blob/87321b04224b2e2e857b67...

There seems to be a fair amount of stigma around using llms. And many people that use them are uncomfortable talking about it.

It's a weird world. Depending on who is at the wheel, whether an llm is used _can_ make no difference.

But the problem is, you can have no idea what you're doing and make something that feels like it was carefully hand-crafted by someone - a really great project - but there are hidden things or outright lies about functionality, often to the surprise of the author. Like, they weren't trying to mislead, just didn't take them time to see if it did all of what the LLM said it did.

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1. barddoo ◴[] No.45310151{3}[source]
Agree. I used it mostly for getting ideas, the memory management for example, Gemini listed so many different ways of managing memory I didn’t even know existed. I know I wanted to pre allocate memory like tigerbeetle does, so the hybrid approach was perfect. Essentially it has 3 different allocators, a huge one for the cache, a arena allocator for context, intermediate state like pub/sub and temp one, for requests. It was 100% Gemini’s idea.