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lunarboytoday at 3:12 PM1 replyview on HN

Are LLMs not already compilers? They translate human natural language to code pretty well now. But yeah, they probably don't fit the bill of English based code to machine code


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rvztoday at 3:23 PM

> Are LLMs not already compilers? They translate human natural language to code pretty well now.

Can you formally verify prose?

> But yeah, they probably don't fit the bill of English based code to machine code

Which is why LLMs cannot be compilers that transform code to machine code.