Some people seem to think writing a C compiler is hard work. Well, yes, if you’re writing it in assembly language, it is. But I hate to break it to you: Computer science undergraduates write C compilers every semester. Heck, you can learn to do it yourself thanks to Daniel McCarthy’s Developing a C Compiler From Scratch online class. And the class will cost you a lot less than the $20,000 it cost Anthropic.
Turns out if you train an LLM on a codebase for a C compiler, it’ll spit out something that’s a rough approximation of a C compiler.
Which is great if you want a rough approximation of working reliably.
Managers love shitty software as long as it’s within the deadlines.
Plagiarism machine turns out to be tolerably competent at plagiarism. Whenever you need some quick plagiarism, go ahead and grab the plagiarism machine, it’ll do an “OK” job!
I don’t know who that guy in the gif is, but he looks like he’s from the same exclusive gene pool as Jake and Logan Paul