Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023

you know that saying about how a compiler made by N teams will contain N+1 passes?
like every big program contains a replica of the organizational structure that created it?

It's fun sometimes to see big programs made by one person, because they're a sort of inverse mold of their brain structure.

Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023
linus torvalds said something like "every project has to fit within one person's brain" but sometimes the opposite is true
Show threadAlice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023
anyway the minor problem I'm having (this tool doesn't properly handle unicode filenames despite having unicode support) is looking to be so intractable that my options are either:
1. find and switch to a completely different tool that doesn't have this problem
2. find the programmer and eat their brain, gaining their knowledge of how their code works. then implement a fix
Show threadBrian Kung
@foone have you tried any LLM tools to analyze the code base? I haven’t seen one that performs better than grep, but an “inverse mold of someone’s brain” might be an interesting test case.
Jul 10, 2023 at 6:14pmWeb