alt Hacker NewsHonestly I don't find it that impressive. I mean, it's objectively impressive that it can be done at all, but it's not impressive from the standpoint of doing stuff that nearly all real-world users will want it to do.
The C specification and Linux kernel source code are undoubtedly in its training data, as are texts about compilers from a theoretical/educational perspective.
Meanwhile, I'm certain most people will never need it to perform this task. I would be more interested in seeing if it could add support for a new instruction set to LLVM, for example. Or perhaps write a complier for a new language that someone just invented, after writing a first draft of a spec for it.
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Are you a frequent user of coding agents?
I ask because, as someone who uses these things every day, the idea that this kind of thing only works because of similar projects in the training data doesn't fit my mental model of how they work at all.
I'm wondering if the "it's in the training data" theorists are coding agent practitioners, or if they're mainly people who don't use the tools.
> Or perhaps write a complier for a new language that someone just invented, after writing a first draft of a spec for it.
Hello, this is what I did over my Christmas break. I've been taking some time to do other things, but plan on returning to it. But this absolutely works. Claude has written far more programs in my language than I have.
https://rue-lang.dev/ if you want to check it out. Spec and code are both linked there.