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You wouldn’t pay a human to write 100k LOC. Or at least you shouldn’t. You’d pay a human to write a working useful compiler that isn’t riddled with copyright issues.

If you didn’t care about copying code, usefulness, or correctness you could probably get a human to whip you up a C compiler for a lot less than $20k.

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Are you trolling me? Companies (made of humans) write 100,000 LOC all the time.

And it's really expensive, despite your suspicions.

No, companies don’t pay people to write 100k LOC. They pay people to write useful software.

We figured out that LOC was a useless productivity metric in the 80s.

> you could probably get a human to whip you up a C compiler for a lot less than $20k

I fork Clang or GCC and rename it. I'll take only $10k.

My question, which I didn’t still find anybody asking: how many compilers, including but not limited to the 2 most famous, were in the training set.

Certainly tcc. Probably also rui314's chibicc as it's relatively popular. sdcc is likely in there as well. Among numerous others that are either proprietary or not as well known.

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