The first commit was 17k lines. So this was either developed without using version control or at least without using this gh repo. Either way I have to say certain sections do feel like they would have been prime targets for having an LLM write them. You could do all of this by hand in 2026, but you wouldn't have to. In fact it would probably take forever to do this by hand as a single dev. But then again there are people who spend 2000 hours building a cpu in minecraft, so why not. The result speaks for itself.
> The first commit was 17k lines. So this was either developed without using version control or at least without using this gh repo.
Most of my free-time projects are developed either by my shooting the shit with code on disk for a couple of months, until it's in a working state, then I make one first commit. Alternatively, I commit a bunch iteratively, but before making it public I fold it all into one commit, which would be the init. 20K lines in the initial commit is not that uncommon, depends a lot on the type of project though.
I'm sure I'm not alone with this sort of workflow(s).
Or first thousand commits were squashed. First public commit tells nothing about how this was developed. If I were to publish something that I have worked on my own for a long time, I would definitely squash all early commits into a single one just to be sure I don't accidentally leak something that I don't want to leak.
Hello not the poster but I am BarraCUDA's author. I didn't use GIT for this. This is just one of a dozen compiler projects sitting in my folder. Hence the one large initial commit. I was only posting on github to get feedback from r/compilers and friends I knew.
The original test implementation of this for instance was written in OCaml before I landed on C being better for me.
sigmoid10|12 days ago
embedding-shape|11 days ago
Most of my free-time projects are developed either by my shooting the shit with code on disk for a couple of months, until it's in a working state, then I make one first commit. Alternatively, I commit a bunch iteratively, but before making it public I fold it all into one commit, which would be the init. 20K lines in the initial commit is not that uncommon, depends a lot on the type of project though.
I'm sure I'm not alone with this sort of workflow(s).
pheis|11 days ago
ZaneHam|8 days ago
The original test implementation of this for instance was written in OCaml before I landed on C being better for me.
saidnooneever|11 days ago
people are to keen to say something was produced with an LLM if they feel its something they cannot produce themselves readily..
kmaitreys|12 days ago