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You missed this from last year

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler

Also I dunno why you should be impressed by this - gcc isn't anything near eg navier stokes

There must be like a 1000 examples of c compilers in git hub alone. No idea why building LLM building one is impressive. It's right there in the training data.

I said gcc, not a C compiler

True, it does more than just c. Does it do anything the usual LLMs don't have in their training data tho? I doubt it.

No, not that is does anything more...

It's that gcc is an old and reliable piece of software built on abstractions that have stood the test of time.

by that measure an LLM can "build" you gcc by doing cp -R lol

No. Starting in a sandbox given only the C specification and assembly code specification build a gcc equivalent (maintainability and performance) from the ground up.

Brother I have no idea what your goalposts are supposed to measure in your mind but I do know they're meaningless for everyone else.

Okay tell me why that's not even close to gcc. You can use an LLM

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