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Torvalds: AI Is the New Compiler, Not the New Programmer (pbxscience.com)
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[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But you still have to compile

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

When the next thing is invented, then we'll have to do three things.

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So funny thing, a colleague of mine was arguing that there's no reason to do a compiler because he got Claude to generate ELF binary directly for a hello world...

Some of the AI bros are very extremely bullish on it too the point of saying compilers are a waste of time..

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

I meaaan i guess. I don’t think the training set is good enough for anything complex eyes