Comment Comment by never_inline Eliminating duplication and cleaning code is a different type of refactoring than supporting concurrency, which is much much harder.Cleaning up code also follows some well established patterns, performance work is much less pattern-y.Codebases like FFMPEG are one of the kind. I bet you need 10 or 100 times more understanding than the react thing you mentioned above.One day maybe AI can do it, but it probably won't be LLM. It would be something which can understand symbols and math. parent never_inline 2 years ago
Cleaning up code also follows some well established patterns, performance work is much less pattern-y.
Codebases like FFMPEG are one of the kind. I bet you need 10 or 100 times more understanding than the react thing you mentioned above.
One day maybe AI can do it, but it probably won't be LLM. It would be something which can understand symbols and math.