This makes sense - they are demonstrating the capability of their core product by doing so? They dont make browsers, c compilers, they sell ai + dev tools.
replySeems like a poor advertisement for their product if their shining example of utility is a broken compiler that doesn't function as the README indicates.
replyImpressive that it made a c compiler though? Or do we judge all programmers by their documentation now?
replyAll it took was all the C compilers they could scrape into their training set.
replyIt’s not impressive in the sense that it’s doing what it was designed to.
It just happens that it generated a C compiler that kind of worked.
Someone came by later and used more AI on it to make it closer to a production grade C compiler like gcc/clang.
Saying, “it made a C compiler,” is not specific enough.
Capability of a product that makes non-working outputs at a premium?
replyI can hire an intern for that.
Will cost you a lot more ;)
replyI think it's a nice break from vibe-coding. It feels like a good direction in terms of use cases for LLM.
replyWhat was Anthropic's "browser that didn't work"?
replyI think they meant Cursor, cf https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646777
replySolving bugs in Firefox is quite impressive.
replyHowever, the shape is there. And no one knows how good the thing is going to be after X months. We are measuring months here, not even years.
replyI believe there is a theoretical cap about the capability of LLM. I'm wondering what does it look like.
If it explore all these cases after a few month and made the tool itself obsolete, that sounds like a total win to me?
replyHowever that don't happen unless firefox just stop developing though. New code comes with new bug, and there must be some people or some tool to find it out.
I think OpenAI is flailing around too-- we're making an AI-generated shortform video app, we're rescinding restrictions on porn, we're making a... something... with Jony Ive-- but only Anthropic is flailing in a way beneficial to society instead of becoming a trillion dollar heroin dealer.
replyThat's what people back then must have talked about small offshoots like Google and Microsoft back when silicon valley was nascent
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