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by tux3 17 days ago
Yeah, spot on. This is what the code looks like: https://github.com/loadingalias/rscrypto/blob/4e24772a54fef3...

Look at these section comments that LLMs love ("// ─── Rotation helpers ────")

Now you sometimes see these section comments in legacy codebases that have very long files. What you don't see people use is U+2500 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL unicode characters padded out just right to look pretty. We humans have regular keyboards, but these AIs are trained to output emojis and pretty unicode.

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The documentation and to a large extent commenting, auditing, and almost every markdown file was likely generated with an LLM. Do not mistake that for competence or quality.

This is a pre-v1 codebase. I'm looking for bench-methodology failures; I'm looking for API issues and/or code smells. I'm looking for ASM/SIMD weak points and/or testing issues.

Over time, as I have the capacity, I will almost certainly clean up anything that's just not necessary. Having said that, if something feels clean and it was done by an LLM in my harness/workflow - I'm 100% happy to leave it.

Please, dig into the code. Let me know what you see. Thanks.