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Comment by atomicnumber3

"When was the last time you reviewed the machine code produced by a compiler?"

Compilers will produce working output given working input literally 100% of my time in my career. I've never personally found a compiler bug.

Meanwhile AI can't be trusted to give me a recipe for potato soup. That is to say, I would under no circumstances blindly follow the output of an LLM I asked to make soup. While I have, every day of my life, gladly sent all of the compiler output to the CPU without ever checking it.

The compiler metaphor is simply incorrect and people trying to say LLMs compile English into code insult compiler devs and English speakers alike.

parent atomicnumber3 8 months ago

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