alt Hacker NewsDo you trust the assembly your compiler puts out? The machine code your assembler puts out? The virtual machine it runs on? Thousands of lines of code you've never looked at...
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bobanrocky • today at 6:06 AM
Compiler theory and implementation is based on mathematical and logic principles. And hence much more provable and trustworthy than a LLM thats stitching together pieces of text based on ‘training’
bandrami • today at 3:28 AM
"Trust"? God no. That's why I have a debugger
None of that is generated by an LLM prone to hallucination and is perfectly deterministic unless there's a hardware problem.
And yes, I have occasionally run into compiler bugs in my career. That's one reason we test.