Re: Maybe a way to get a few more developpers to work on Guix ?

[MSavoritias <email@msavoritias.me>]

pinoaffe <pinoaffe@gmail.com> writes:

> Nicolas Graves via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org> writes:
>> ... code generation through LLMs. This could itself help Guix generate
>> (and fix) package definitions.
>
> I really don't think that that'd be a good match for Guix.  Writing
> package definitions is easy, can be assisted with a snippet (such as
> provided in /path/to/guix/etc/snippets/yas/scheme-mode/guix-package) and
> writing a package definition takes hardly more work than verifying that
> an LLM-provided package definition is reasonable.
>
> In other words, I don't think a LLM could make it easier/faster to write
> package definitions.
>
> Kind regards,
> pinoaffe

Yeah Agreed.

It seems to just shift the problem from "We need developers" to "We need
people that verify the output of the LLM." So we are basically stuck
with the same problem.

Regards,
MSavoritias