david_chisnall on Nostr: nprofile1q…28yzg I used machine learning in my PhD. The use case there was data ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq4kq66yf8e9yetpw9afpumxy3yq2w2gkcrd2w76xahyrwh45ldatqk28yzg (nprofile…8yzg) I used machine learning in my PhD. The use case there was data prefetching. This was an ideal task for ML, because the benefits of a correct answer were high and the cost of an incorrect answer were low. In the worst case, your prefetching evicts something from cache that you need later, but a 60% accuracy in predictions is a big overall improvement.

Programming is the opposite. The benefits of being able to generate correct code faster 80% of the time are small but the costs of generating incorrect code even 1% of the time are high. The entire shift-left movement is about finding and preventing bugs earlier.