It’s hard to say. The compiler is in a state that isn’t useful for anything at all and it’s 100k lines of code for something that could probably be 10k-20k.

But even assuming it was somehow a useful piece of software that you’d want to pay for, the creator setup a test harness to use gcc as an oracle. So it has an oracle for every possible input and output. Plus there are thousands of C compilers in its training set.

If you are in a position where you are trying to reverse engineer an exact copy of something that already exists (maybe in another language) and you can’t just fork that thing then maybe a better version of this process could be useful. But that’s a very narrow use case.

The cost argument is a fallacy, because right now, either you have a trained human in the loop, or the model inevitably creates a mess.

But regardless, services are extremely cheap right now, to the point where every single company involved in generative AI are losing billions. Let’s see what happens when prices go up 10x.

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because they tell you to stop being so stupid and run apt install gcc