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Man I can't wait for tcc to be reposted for the 4th time this week with the license scrubbed and the comment of "The Latest AI just zero-shotted an entire C com

by kimixa 8mo ago

Man I can't wait for tcc to be reposted for the 4th time this week with the license scrubbed and the comment of "The Latest AI just zero-shotted an entire C compiler in 5 minutes!"

overgard 8mo ago
And the subsequent youtube hype videos of "COMPILER WRITING IS OVER!"
resonious 8mo ago
There actually was an article like this from Anthropic the other day but instead of 5 minutes I think it was weeks and $20,000 worth of tokens. Don't have the link handy though.
- logicprog 8mo ago
  Except it was written in a completely different language (Rust), which would have necessitated a completely different architecture, and nobody has established any relationship either algorithmically or on any other level between that compiler and TCC.
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- Barbing 8mo ago
  Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/sixteen-claude-ai-agents-working-together-created-a-new-c-compiler https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/sixteen-claude-ai-agents-... > The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management. We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903616
  - logicprog 8mo ago
    Quoting my sibling comment: Except it was written in a completely different language (Rust), which likely would have necessitated a completely different architecture, and nobody has established any relationship either algorithmically or on any other level between that compiler and TCC. Additionally, and Anthropic's compiler supports x86_64 (partially), ARM, and RISC-V, whereas TCC supports x86, x86_64, and ARM. Additionally, TCC is only known to be able to boot a modified version of the Linux 2.4 kernel[1] instead of an unmodified version of Linux 6.9. Additionally, it is extremely unlikely for a model to be able to regurgitate this many tokens of something, especially translated into another language, especially without being prompted with the starting set of tokens in order to specifically direct it to do that regurgitation. So, whatever you want to say about the general idea that all model output is plagiarism of patterns it's already seen or something. It seems pretty clear to me that this does not fit the hyperbolic description put forward in the parent comments. [1]: https://www.bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html https://www.bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html
rowanG077 8mo ago
I may have missed this. Do you have a link when AI verbatim copied tcc and it was publicized? I have my doubts.
logicprog 8mo ago
I don't understand what you could possibly be talking about. Do you care to elaborate?
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by kimixa 8mo ago

Man I can't wait for tcc to be reposted for the 4th time this week with the license scrubbed and the comment of "The Latest AI just zero-shotted an entire C compiler in 5 minutes!"

overgard 8mo ago

And the subsequent youtube hype videos of "COMPILER WRITING IS OVER!"

resonious 8mo ago

There actually was an article like this from Anthropic the other day but instead of 5 minutes I think it was weeks and $20,000 worth of tokens. Don't have the link handy though.

logicprog 8mo ago
Except it was written in a completely different language (Rust), which would have necessitated a completely different architecture, and nobody has established any relationship either algorithmically or on any other level between that compiler and TCC.
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Barbing 8mo ago
Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler - Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/sixteen-claude-ai-agents-working-together-created-a-new-c-compiler https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/sixteen-claude-ai-agents-... > The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management. We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler | Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903616 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903616
- logicprog 8mo ago
  Quoting my sibling comment: Except it was written in a completely different language (Rust), which likely would have necessitated a completely different architecture, and nobody has established any relationship either algorithmically or on any other level between that compiler and TCC. Additionally, and Anthropic's compiler supports x86_64 (partially), ARM, and RISC-V, whereas TCC supports x86, x86_64, and ARM. Additionally, TCC is only known to be able to boot a modified version of the Linux 2.4 kernel[1] instead of an unmodified version of Linux 6.9. Additionally, it is extremely unlikely for a model to be able to regurgitate this many tokens of something, especially translated into another language, especially without being prompted with the starting set of tokens in order to specifically direct it to do that regurgitation. So, whatever you want to say about the general idea that all model output is plagiarism of patterns it's already seen or something. It seems pretty clear to me that this does not fit the hyperbolic description put forward in the parent comments. [1]: https://www.bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html https://www.bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html

rowanG077 8mo ago

I may have missed this. Do you have a link when AI verbatim copied tcc and it was publicized? I have my doubts.

logicprog 8mo ago

I don't understand what you could possibly be talking about. Do you care to elaborate?

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