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Anthropic's AI‑built C compiler is not all that impressive (www.theregister.com)
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Some people seem to think writing a C compiler is hard work. Well, yes, if you're writing it in assembly language, it is. But I hate to break it to you: Computer science undergraduates write C compilers every semester. Heck, you can learn to do it yourself thanks to Daniel McCarthy's Developing a C Compiler From Scratch online class. And the class will cost you a lot less than the $20,000 it cost Anthropic.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Turns out if you train an LLM on a codebase for a C compiler, it’ll spit out something that’s a rough approximation of a C compiler.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Which is great if you want a rough approximation of working reliably.

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 1 points 22 hours ago

Managers love shitty software as long as it's within the deadlines.

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Plagiarism machine turns out to be tolerably competent at plagiarism. Whenever you need some quick plagiarism, go ahead and grab the plagiarism machine, it'll do an "OK" job!

[–] frunch@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I don't know who that guy in the gif is, but he looks like he's from the same exclusive gene pool as Jake and Logan Paul