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This is genuinely how I write :'( It is probably because I read tons and tons of LLM output.
It's ok, it is slightly llm-like but not in the worst way, like it was edited after. You aren't Claude at least.
I absorbed so many different models at this point :)
Thank you for the kind words.
The title is the worst part of the essay. Which is super interesting, to wit: fable's a very capable model when it comes to transforming concepts in and out of structural descriptions, and you can use it (along with a test suite I presume) to transpile a codebase. I wouldn't have thought to do this, but I think it makes sense, and I like it - it's using model intelligence at a few different steps for sensible things.…
I'm glad you liked it. I was trying to keep both, the title and the content as straightforward as possible. Another point is, Fable is reasonably cheap if you don't allow it to read or write.
I recently performed this exact exercise of converting a complex library set from one language into an intermediate state machine representation and then translated into N other languages. It worked well but there's a lot of caveats. I'd highly recommend a direct "port" in most cases tbh, as many bugs are "load bearing" and may not survive the intermediate translation. I speak from experience.
> I'd highly recommend a direct "port" I'm sure there are other caveats. Also cost of the more or less straightforward Bun port was $165000 for 500KLoC.
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I work on a C++ codebase. I frequently prototype in c and then have the ai model slopify it back to c++. Nice b/c I am faster at reading c, but hard b/c you miss some of the features/nuances of c++.
I would be afraid to do this with C++. My friend once sent me a snippet, maybe 10 lines of C+++, asking "can you spot the UB?". So I'm staring at these 10 lines, I KNOW there is an UB. I wasn't able to find it without a hint.
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How much did the verification cost on top? how did you gate it? was it a Go test suite you ran against the Rust or what? I always wonder how ppl are testing these rewrites, rewriting the tests can also lead to bug. I really wonder how reliable are rewrites like that, a 65k lines you didn't actually read. How did you confirm the semantic equivalence, same behaviour?
I realized that I haven't answered the question. These $400 also include the tests. Fable ported "human fuzzing session" (the best bug hunter) from Go to Rust and used it to validate everything else. I used hierarchical state machines, so a lot of my QA gates were encoded into the implementation — impossible states are, well, impossible. (I ported first 80% practically in one shot, planning and then leaving Fable ove…
Languages have conventions and best practices that aren’t portable.
We could port COBOL to c and do a crap ton of goto/jmps and make a
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honestly it is hard to believe that seeing your replies and this heading: "The secret sauce". Giving the benefit of doubt, we all might be writing a bit like claude nowadays. If that is the case, I'd recommend reviewing the content before publishing to see if it sounds like a LLM. Or if you are trying to create "better" AI slop and think that is enough to say the text is human-written, don't do that, just say it was…
I wrote this elsewhere. Reading so much LLM output may have affected how I write. Probably I need some fresh air and a good fiction book.
what did i read? genuinely? its only a few words, and even that had to be AI written. The topic in the title barely was mentioned.