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applfanboysbgontoday at 7:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

This kills the crab.

Compilation time will be a genuine bottleneck for slop coding if this becomes the standard generation rate over the next few years. Go, Zig or even C99 with TCC for dev builds, any language that can get you systems-level performance (or close to it) in a dev environment where you can iterate in ms rather than minutes is going to be immensely more appealing than generating a potential prototype in 10 seconds and waiting 15 minutes for it to compile.


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yetihehetoday at 7:13 PM

Maybe then LLM's will switch to outputting raw machine code?

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Philpaxtoday at 7:28 PM

I think it's pretty obvious that, in that world, the AIs will simply be tasked with making the compilers faster. It's already happening with their own stack, after all.

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