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It's newsworthy when the sellers of squares are saying that nobody will ever need a triangle again, and the shape-sector of the stock market is hysterically pumping money into companies that make or use squares.
Marketing departments love to make a huge deal out of this kind of thing, because they only see the big number improvement and don't really understand that this was just some dev's Wednesday afternoon.
They make the same mistake further down the article:
However, the implementation of the command suffered from poor scalability related to reference count, creating a performance bottleneck. As repositories accumulated more references, processing time increased exponentially.
This article writer really loves bullet point lists, too. 🤨
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We are very sorry for this unforseen down-time, but slrpnknet will return for sure and we already have some plans for a nice relaunch, so stay tuned!
Looking through the commit history there are numerous "Manually fixed..." commits, where the LLM doesn't do what the programmer wants after repeated prompting, so they fix it themself.
And here is the problem. It required expert supervision for the prompts to be repeatedly refined, and the code manually fixed, until the code was correct. This doesn't save any labour, it just changes the nature of programming into code review.
If this programmer wasn't already an expert in this problem domain then I have no doubt that this component would be full of bugs and security issues.
Who at Wikimedia is so out of touch that they thought that this was a good idea? They need to be replaced.