antirez: frontier LLMs now handle context-dependent porting tasks that used to fail
antirez · x · 2026-11-12
Redis creator antirez argues that code porting used to fail with LLMs not because it's a binary capability, but because porting requires context-dependent judgment about what to do — and frontier models are now good enough at deciding what to do when things are unclear. In open-ended tasks, he adds, frontier LLMs keep getting better, including at the "improve this process" step itself.
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