Hugo Buddelmeijer via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <[email protected]> writes:
> On 5/6/26 03:44, Nguyễn Gia Phong via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU > System > distribution. wrote: > >> I meant it does not really assist with determining the latest/desired >> version to update to, autocompleting the checksum, pointing to >> the patches' URLs, or rebasing them for the version to be packaged. >> There can be tools wrapping around LLM but at it's more effective >> to write one that behave semantically instead. > > Yes, you'd need an Agent to do those things. But that is somewhat implied; > people using LLM's for coding mostly do that through an agent. > > But those agents are really good in "determining the latest/desired version, > autocompleting the checksum, pointing to patches" etc. They can even write > the > patches. I invite you to try them out. > > [..] Single data point, out of curiosity since I was forced to used them at work, I asked Opus 4.7 to create me a php-7.4 package. More than $120 burn tokens later, I had a package (of questionable quality) that does compile and the php binary passes some casual testing. Though for example tests were not passing, and AI solved by `#:tests? #f', so, mixed results. Tomas -- There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
