@lain @icedquinn @phnt @sun @newt >"yeah it can compile a linux kernel but how hard is that, really?"
I'm not saying that. But it can't.
I can compile a linux kernel by hand and output assembly. "It won't boot but what does that matter, really?"
> if someone wrote a new fediverse server and tested it against mastodon's and pleroma's test suite, i wouldn't have said they didn't write a fediverse server.
That's true but THEY are obviously trying to say it can solve unsolved problems in the programming space, i.e. supplant or at least accelerate a human programmer. If it needs the entire compiler test suite AND the compiler, it "not even" does clean room re-implementation. Which is easier obviously.
It's a different thing than what they say it is.
Fedi server is similar. That *MIGHT* also break down once the docs and test suites are exhausted and it is asked to implement something ref doesn't have.
If it doesn't break down on such tasks, then why not make it do THOSE instead and and prove it?
It's more a lies in marketing problem than anything else.
