The Good & The Bad When Using LLMs To Write Spack Packages

The Good & The Bad When Using LLMs To Write Spack Packages

The Spack package manager is quite popular in the HPC / supercomputer space for scientific software. Even with the more selective niche than a typical general purpose OS package manager, large language models (LLMs) have already proven capable of being useful in generating new Spack packages. But there have also been some headaches involved too for Spack developers… https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Generated-Spack-Packages