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david-gputoday at 12:57 AM1 replyview on HN

> Meanwhile, one peak at the code and you can already see the state starting to become a bit of a spaghetti mess.

That is how compiler-generated assembly looks to humans, as well. Human-produced is typically much more readable. Yet, here we are. Most programmers only know the very basics of assembly programming, but the world keeps spinning just fine.


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aselimov3today at 3:36 AM

Comparing LLM output to compiler output is such a stale meme by now that it's surprising to see people still saying it. Obviously a deterministic translation of a higher level programming language to machine code is different than the slop cannon.

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