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		mrheosuper 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun t... I wonder whether we have the same talk when the C compiler first came out. People may worry that the "ASM" codebase will be bit-rot and no one can understand the compiler output or add new feature to the ASM codebase.

guax 4 months ago [–]

My guess is that the discussion trended around performance and not correctness since compilers are pretty well understood. Why a LLM output what they do are not understood by anyone to the same degree.

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