I promise you that all financial and legal systems worth rewriting require a lot more context than 32K tokens.
Given the utter absence of solid test coverage, a much more likely approach is massive coverage generation via ChatGPT test generation & human audits, and then a gradual rewite by humans assisted by ChatGPT.
It's a really good tool, it's nowhere good enough to do automated rewrites. (And as long as the results matter, you'll continue to have humans in the loop for more than 5 years - if for no other reason than cleanly assigning legal blame)
Yes I agree. I work with these systems, they are so complex I think all of it would have to be in memory at once. My "dream" requires many chained miracles and that something like this would be possible at all, abolishing technical debt would only be a footnote of the effects on the world. Anyway I still think it's possible and obviously in one way or another humans will always be in the loop. I'll tell you about the current state, if I write 50 lines of code in a very important place there will be 3 months of testing.
Given the utter absence of solid test coverage, a much more likely approach is massive coverage generation via ChatGPT test generation & human audits, and then a gradual rewite by humans assisted by ChatGPT.
It's a really good tool, it's nowhere good enough to do automated rewrites. (And as long as the results matter, you'll continue to have humans in the loop for more than 5 years - if for no other reason than cleanly assigning legal blame)