On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 12:34 PM Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > In the same vein we import CRAN and Bioconductor packages > automatically > without requiring the use of LLMs in a loop: > > https://codeberg.org/guix-science/guix-cran-scripts/ > > These scripts rely on the CRAN importer/updater, which is what I > use for > bulk updates to the R package collection in Guix.
If someone was already packaging Guix then this project would be as simple as importing CRAN. > I think we'd benefit from improvements to the importers and > updaters without encouraging the use of LLMs, which are orders of > magnitude heavier in terms of complexity and compute resources. LLMs use a tiny fraction of resources required for a build, and by reducing builds are even eco-friendly. > (This is, of course, beside the point of whether LLM output should > or should not be included in Guix. This tangent is a note on > whether LLMs are really the tool of choice for package updates. > It's disappointing to see a willingness to substitute simple, > reproducible, and understandable code with LLMs.) No one wants to replace simple tools with AI. The goal is to make better tools. LLMs can of course use the existing tools.
