minus-squaredovel@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·29 days agoIt seems that Anthropic has vibe coded a C compiler. This one is really good! The generated code is not very efficient. Even with all optimizations enabled, it outputs less efficient code than GCC with all optimizations disabled. linkfedilink
minus-squaredovel@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThis has never been tried before and is a completely new idea. linkfedilink
minus-squaredovel@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th October 2025 - awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·5 months agoI took a quick peek at his blog. Oh dear, there is a dedicated rationality subsection… linkfedilink
It seems that Anthropic has vibe coded a C compiler. This one is really good! The generated code is not very efficient. Even with all optimizations enabled, it outputs less efficient code than GCC with all optimizations disabled.