Use of IA for PR - my POV

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Tuesday, 10 February 2026 at 17:38:40 UTC, matheus wrote:

> Interesting, since I'm not using AI I'd like to know, in this 
> case you have LLM locally and you point to D source folder and 
> It learns from that database and do everything from there?

You *can* run LLMs locally, but it depends what you want it to do 
for you. I use llama with qwen3-coder-next on my desktop CPU. It 
works fine for asking it about what a function does, what some 
code does, writing short functions, or documentation of short 
functions. You no longer need a GPU for anything like that. Just 
a free model and a computer with enough RAM.

If you want to do anything that requires thinking or a lot of 
context, AI services like Claude or Gemini are still your best 
bet, or you better have an expensive computer sitting around 
doing nothing.

> they showed us a port of one module written over the past 20 
> years in a new language using AI in just a couple of hours, it 
> was modernized and everything else through AI.

If you want to port C code to D, that's to a large extent already 
done. I can convert C header files quickly using ImportC plus 
Gemini for cleaning up the edge cases. I'd be very cautious about 
"modernizing" C code with an LLM. You better write an extensive 
test suite before you try that.