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by altmanaltman 31 days ago
The irony of not understanding almost 100% of the code on modern airplanes is actually done by instructing a program to actually generate the code. It is neither terrifying nor sad. You expect humans to write millions of lines of code? At that scale, procedureally generating code is much safer and smarter.
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Those millions of lines of code can often be reduced 10x or 100x with just a bit of common sense, and with that also reducing the potential bug count by 10x to 100x.

Also unlike LLMs, traditional code generation techniques are deterministic.

You think simulink code is not deterministic? And okay tell me how will you optimize an Airbus 320's software down to 10x or 100x? I'm waiting.
I'm not flying anymore if that's the case.