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100k lines of clean, bug free, optimized, and vulnerability free code or 100k lines of outsourced slop? Two very different price points.

qarl 7mo ago
A compiler that can build linux. That level of quality should be sufficient. Do you know any low quality programmers that write C compilers in rust THAT CAN BUILD LINUX? No you don't. They do not exist.
- bopbopbop7 7mo ago
  Do you think this was guided by a low quality Anthropic developer? You can give a developer the GCC test suite and have them build the compiler backwards, which is how this was done. They literally brute forced it, most developers can brute force. It also literally uses GCC in the background... Maybe try reading the article.
  - qarl 7mo ago
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    - bopbopbop7 7mo ago
      The trick to not be confused is to read more than the title of the article.
      - qarl 7mo ago
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        bopbopbop7 7mo ago
        Speaking of obnoxious
    - qarl 7mo ago
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- icedchai 7mo ago
  Yep. Building a working C compiler that compiles Linux is an impossible task for all but the top 1% of developers. And the ones that could do it have better things to do, plus they’d want a lot more than 20K for the trouble.
  - vbezhenar 7mo ago
    What's so hard about it? Compiler construction is well researched topic and taught in the universities. I made toy language compiler as a student. May be I'm underestimating this task, but I think that I can build some simple C compiler which will output trivial assembly. Given my salary of $2500, that would probably take me around a year, so that's pretty close LoL.
    - cma 7mo ago
      You can one shot prompt a toy C compiler. Getting one that can compile Linux in a bootable way is significantly harder.
      - f1shy 7mo ago
        Everybody talks as Linux is the most difficult thing to compile in the world. The reality is that linux is well written and designed with portability with crappy compilers in mind from the beginning. Also, the booting part, as stated some times, is discutable.
        icedchai 7mo ago
        The reality is you can build Linux with gcc and clang. And that’s it. Years ago you could use Intel’s icc compiler, but that stopped being supported. Let’s stop pretending it’s an undergrad project.
        cma 7mo ago
        Just writing a non-toy C preprocessor is non-trivial.
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qarl 7mo ago

A compiler that can build linux. That level of quality should be sufficient. Do you know any low quality programmers that write C compilers in rust THAT CAN BUILD LINUX? No you don't. They do not exist.

bopbopbop7 7mo ago
Do you think this was guided by a low quality Anthropic developer? You can give a developer the GCC test suite and have them build the compiler backwards, which is how this was done. They literally brute forced it, most developers can brute force. It also literally uses GCC in the background... Maybe try reading the article.
- qarl 7mo ago
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  - bopbopbop7 7mo ago
    The trick to not be confused is to read more than the title of the article.
    - qarl 7mo ago
      [flagged]
      - bopbopbop7 7mo ago
        Speaking of obnoxious
  - qarl 7mo ago
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icedchai 7mo ago
Yep. Building a working C compiler that compiles Linux is an impossible task for all but the top 1% of developers. And the ones that could do it have better things to do, plus they’d want a lot more than 20K for the trouble.
- vbezhenar 7mo ago
  What's so hard about it? Compiler construction is well researched topic and taught in the universities. I made toy language compiler as a student. May be I'm underestimating this task, but I think that I can build some simple C compiler which will output trivial assembly. Given my salary of $2500, that would probably take me around a year, so that's pretty close LoL.
  - cma 7mo ago
    You can one shot prompt a toy C compiler. Getting one that can compile Linux in a bootable way is significantly harder.
    - f1shy 7mo ago
      Everybody talks as Linux is the most difficult thing to compile in the world. The reality is that linux is well written and designed with portability with crappy compilers in mind from the beginning. Also, the booting part, as stated some times, is discutable.
      - icedchai 7mo ago
        The reality is you can build Linux with gcc and clang. And that’s it. Years ago you could use Intel’s icc compiler, but that stopped being supported. Let’s stop pretending it’s an undergrad project.
      - cma 7mo ago
        Just writing a non-toy C preprocessor is non-trivial.
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