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Nevermind "comments", has anyone with a name and reputation claimed they are?

The title is a reference back to "Is Claude Code a Compiler?" by the same author, linked from the first sentence: https://commaok.xyz/ai/is-claude-a-compiler/

And then claim is attributed right there:

> The hands-down highlight was the talk by Erik Schluntz: Vibe coding in prod.

> Among other things, he drew an analogy between LLMs and compilers.

Didn't read the article because the conclusion is obvoius enough to me as is, never heard of Erik Schluntz before, and drawing an analogy between two things means very little anyway. "this bike is about as heavy as that table" doesn't require the rebuttal that bikes aren't tables, for example.

so far I mostly saw it spewed forth on HN

Spec-driven development is sold on the idea that you regenerate modules or entire services when you change the spec. It's a really dumb idea but was briefly popular in enterprise, probably still is in some companies.

A compiler does not transalte specs to code.

Specs are denotational by nature.

A program could synthesize a program that adheres to the specs. But that is not what we understand by a compiler that generally has to preserve operational semantics.

I've heard the "if you hate vibe coding you must also hate compilers" strawman so many times, I'm sure it's been said by someone with a "name and reputation" at least once.

Heard it a bunch of times from my superiors at work, if that counts.

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