hot take: Claude Code being able to spit out a (very shitty) C compiler is not that impressive at all.

hot take: Claude Code being able to spit out a (very shitty) C compiler is not that impressive at all.

Did they exclude all C compilers from it's training set? No?

So you compressed a bunch of a existing code, including C compilers, into a multibillion parameter vector, and then were able to recover enough to construct (through trial-and-error) a functional-ish C compiler.

And it cost $20.000, just for the recovery part, in credits priced by a company that is burning cash at an insane rate

Not to mention that really a C compiler is not that complicated a thing to make, it's just a whole lot of mappings between constructs in C and assembly. Building a good C compiler is very hard of course. (They did NOT do this)

But sure, go ahead and write a dumb blog post with a vague and ominous ending about how scary this is we basically made jarvis or whatever.