Like everything genAI, it was amazing yet surprisingly crappy.

Yes, the bear is definitely dancing.

But a few feet away there's a world-class step dancer doing intricate rhythms they've perfected over twenty years of hard work.

The bear's kind of shuffling along to the beat like a stoner in a club.

It's amazing it can do it at all... but the resulting compiler is not actually good enough to be worth using.

I found this was the least impressive bit about it https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1

It didn’t work without gcc and it was significantly worse than gcc with gcc optimizations disabled.