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@mhoye except... https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1

@mhoye Some say they carved it themselves... out of a more complete C compiler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx7rmUbAYZ0

@mhoye I think they misunderstood Linus as being serious when he said: '"Regression testing"? What's that? If it compiles, it is good; if it boots up, it is perfect.'

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wait, so even if it can compile file A correctly, and file B correctly, it can still break if you ask it to compile both files? How did they manage to make it so bad?

@mhoye https://www.404media.co/vibe-coding-is-killing-open-source-software-researchers-argue/

@mhoye I'm re-reading "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" and nodding so hard that my neck is starting to hurt.

"At issue is the claim that the machines, structures, and systems of modern material culture can be accurately judged not only for their contributions of efficiency and productivity, not merely for their positive and negative environmental side effects, but also for the ways in which they can embody specific forms of power and authority."

That's only the opening paragraph.

@mhoye Barrel laugh of the day for "by verifying the kernel worked" without specifying what extremely limited interpretation of "works" they were using.

@mhoye "This was a clean-room implementation" 🤔
(that was trained on the whole internet, presumably including GCC).