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That's true and I fully agree. I don't think LLMs' progress in writing a toy C compiler diminishes the achievements that the GCC project did. But also we've ju
by bgirard 7mo ago
That's true and I fully agree. I don't think LLMs' progress in writing a toy C compiler diminishes the achievements that the GCC project did.
But also we've just witnessed LLMs go from being a glorified line auto-complete tool to it writing a C compiler in ~3 years. And I think that's something. And noting how we keep moving the goal post.
- direwolf20 7mo agoGP: "it didn't write a C compiler, it copied other compilers. Writing one from scratch is a lot harder." You: "but look! It wrote a C compiler!"
- bwfan123 7mo agoThe pattern matching rote-student is acing the class. No surprises here. There is no need to understand the subject from first principles to ace tests. Majority of high-school and college kids know this.