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beambotyesterday at 10:15 PM5 repliesview on HN

This is getting close to a Ken Thompson "Trusting Trust" era -- AI could soon embed itself into the compilers themselves.


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bopbopbop7yesterday at 10:19 PM

A pay to use non-deterministic compiler. Sounds amazing, you should start.

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ndesaulniersyesterday at 10:31 PM

We're already starting to see people experimenting with applying AI towards register allocation and inlining heuristics. I think that many fields within a compiler are still ripe for experimentation.

https://llvm.org/docs/MLGO.html

greenavocadotoday at 12:41 AM

Then i'll be left wondering why my program requires 512TB of RAM to open

jojobastoday at 12:24 AM

Sorry, clang 26.0 requires an Nvidia B200 to run.

andaiyesterday at 11:57 PM

The asymmetry will be between the frontier AI's ability to create exploits vs find them.