Re: LLM based rewrites

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:19:42 -0700
> James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I don't think LLMs will be able to come up with the necessary proof of
> > separation without essentially recreating the clean room process, which
> > grows cost prohibitive as the complexity of the work increases.
> 
> I con see one AI bot reading the original code, and then making the prompts
> to pass to a second AI bot to produce the code.

That's what Chardet did:
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327#issuecomment-4005195078

however, there's a fun question of whether the second AI had already seen
the code; a lot of LLMs seem to have been trained on a lot of open
source code already.

Dave

> -- Steve
> 
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