alt Hacker News"Claude please generate me a C compiler in bash"
I mean, today it's possible to generate it in Tcl, Elisp, Windows BAT, Powershell.
The effort is just 1 prompt.
The WHY question is much more important today -- "because I can" no longer makes sense, because we all can do much, much more with minimum effort today than before LLMs.
Here's a prototype parser from 10 months ago, when this was not possible yet:
https://gist.github.com/alganet/23df53c567b8a0bf959ecbc7b689...
Here is me 10 years ago experimenting on parsing stuff with sed:
https://gist.github.com/alganet/542f46865420529c9bd2
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Yes, c89cc.sh was definitely AI-assisted. However, I do carry extensive knowledge of the portable shell that was essential for the AI to complete it.
You'll find tricks inside c89cc.sh that don't exist anywhere, except in other code from me (like the ksh93 fix for local dynamic scoping or the alias/macro read -n1 polyfill).
The WHY is pretty obvious: I want to show that the portable shell is not a toy.