Why “porting” is being discussed
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Yes. Hi. From our team 3/5 of us use 4.1 to do our daily tasks. For paid work for a company who pays us salary. From people around me I hear a lot of my friends being reall…
by pimeys · Oct 8, 2026
This is where I'm at. I'm not even a supporter of vibe coding and I have serious issues with overwhelming reliance on AI in software development. That said, the Illustrator alte…
by micahlt · Oct 8, 2026
Rigorous specification doesn't even help, the rigority of a good spec requires too much context for LLMs to adhere to and they will flagrantly violate clear specifications once…
by anonymous908213 · Oct 8, 2026
Based on the last 5+ years at working at FAANG adjacent companies - less than 5% of a SWEs time is dedicated to coding (Exceptions of course for crazy things like porting massiv…
by ghshephard · Oct 8, 2026
I'm doing this right now with Codex. It's currently working on porting the Binder. 7-11 phases to go and so far it looks like it might only cost $100. I'm focusing on efficient…
by gzapp · Oct 8, 2026
You may have missed the project history, this _was_ implemented in JS previously. I don't think they were interested in porting it back to a language it was originally written in.
by dwattttt · Oct 8, 2026
Interest
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In software development, porting is the process of adapting software to run in a different context. Often it involves modifying source code so that a program can run on a different platform or in a different environment. It also describes adapting a change or feature from one codebase to another – even between different versions of the same software. Read more on Wikipedia