Comment on DARPA: Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)
astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 3 months ago
I think this is an interesting idea. If they’re able to pull it off, I think it will cement the usefulness of LLMs. I have my doubts, but it’s worth trying. I’d imagine that the LLM is specially tuned to be more adept at this task. Your bog-standard GPT-4 or Claude will probably be unreliable.
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
Having built code converters for the same language to auto migrate to a later version of that language, I’m incredibly worried. We still had to manually verify every thing.
I’m hopeful though that this does become the wave of the future. There’s some serious legacy shit out there that doesn’t have enough of a financial gain to revisit and rewrite.
astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 3 months ago
Yeah, they’ll probably have to check everything. Though, I wonder if even just checking that everything is good to go would save time from manually re-writing it all. While it may not be a smashing success, it could still prove useful.
I dunno, I’m interested to see how this plays out.