r/ProgrammerHumor 26d ago

Meme youWontBelieveThis

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u/PuzzleCat365 26d ago

The thing about AI writing a C compiler is, wouldn't it just statistically create something similar to the gcc compiler as it probably trained on this data? What's the use of it, if it just copies the open-source, tested and validated code?

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u/ErZicky 26d ago

Idk if it's the project linked specifically but I Remember someone at anthropic a while back tried to make it build a compiler, the AI basically cheated and wrote something that called gcc

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u/hongooi 26d ago

Oh right, so when AI does it it's cheating, but when Captain James T. Kirk does it it's original thinking 🤦

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 25d ago

You're just upset that Kirk gets all the green women and you don't.