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beernetyesterday at 7:54 PM4 repliesview on HN

Can you point me to a human written program an LLM cannot write? And no, just answering with a massively large codebase does not count because this issue is temporary.

Some people just hate progress.


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HAL3000yesterday at 9:28 PM

> Can you point me to a human written program an LLM cannot write?

Sure:

"The resulting compiler has nearly reached the limits of Opus’s abilities. I tried (hard!) to fix several of the above limitations but wasn’t fully successful. New features and bugfixes frequently broke existing functionality.

As one particularly challenging example, Opus was unable to implement a 16-bit x86 code generator needed to boot into 16-bit real mode. While the compiler can output correct 16-bit x86 via the 66/67 opcode prefixes, the resulting compiled output is over 60kb, far exceeding the 32k code limit enforced by Linux. Instead, Claude simply cheats here and calls out to GCC for this phase (This is only the case for x86. For ARM or RISC-V, Claude’s compiler can compile completely by itself.)"[1]

1. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

svantanayesterday at 8:42 PM

Pretty much any software that people pay for? If LLMs could clone an app, why would anyone still pay good money for the original?

falloutxyesterday at 8:21 PM

Even a normal website like landonorris.com. Try copying all those effects with AI.

Another example: Red Dead Redemption 2

Another one: Roller coaster tycoon

Another one: ShaderToy

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suddenlybananasyesterday at 8:40 PM

And some people clearly hate humans.