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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-May-2025 23:48:54 JST Rich Felker

   • Itamar Turner-Trauring

   @itamarst Are you supposing that LLMs would or even could get the explicit memory management right? Because they absolutely cannot. It's an extremely hard problem, in a class that's not amenable to pattern application.

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     Itamar Turner-Trauring (itamarst@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 29-May-2025 23:59:26 JST Itamar Turner-Trauring

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     @dalias Probably not, no, but the argument is that _even if it can work_ LLMs would still be a bad solution.

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     aburka 🫣 (aburka@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 08:25:12 JST aburka 🫣

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     • Itamar Turner-Trauring

     @dalias @itamarst I think Itamar's point is rather that whatever the manual-memory-management type of excessive verbosity of today is, we should be reasoning out ways to eliminate it and make our languages more expressive, instead of just hand waving it away because LLMs can (supposedly) do the expressing for us