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I can have a machine generated X server in assembly too. It's called cc -s.

Or:

   $ objdump --disassemble /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg

Maybe I'm getting too old for this, but I really don't see the point in having AI generate assembly code for this.

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It's just you.

Everything that can be done with LLMs is better than without. Why use tooling at all when you just can use a LLM? Maybe just make the LLM generate machine code for your tager directly.

Just like making digital systems that are "better" than analog ones from the past because of digital.

That hasn't been my experience at all. The quality of these things is absolutely terrible. Maybe if you have no taste and no actual skill, you can't tell the difference.

The fact that you have chosen to say this about generated amd64 assembly is telling. This is a terribly pointless exercise. Further, the llms are bad at more niche languages especially. Even experimenting with having them write C, which is quite a bit more common than writing straight assembly, I have seen them fall over quite severely.

Your sarcasm detector is defective.

It's probably just that I've seen too many weird comments on here lately.

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