↪ Replying to @spavel.bsky.social
haha there's that aspect of it too
indeed it would be interesting to use it to try to eliminate said technical debt
again lines of code ∝ "we couldn't express this any shorter"
Only generative AI has the power to produce 30 years of technical debt in a matter of hours.
@doriantaylor.comanother thing worth remarking about postgres (which of course is open-source and not something you sell—at least not in that incarnation—and why i can look at it) is that that 900 kloc or so represents 30+ years of accumulated expertise and design decisions, and i'm skeptical about speedrunning that
