> Pro-LLM coding agents: look! a working compiler built in a few hours by an agent! this is amazing! > Anti-LLM coding agents: it's not a working compiler, tho

> Pro-LLM coding agents: look! a working compiler built in a few hours by an agent! this is amazing! > Anti-LLM coding agents: it's not a working compiler, though. And it doesn't matter how few hours it took, because it doesn't work. It's useless. Also, from the Anti-LLM perspective: did the coding agent actually build a working compiler, or just plagiarize prior art? C compilers are certainly part of the LLM's training set. That's relevant because the implication seems to be: "Look, the agent can successfully develop really advanced software!" when the reality may be that it can plagiarize existing advanced software, and will fall on its face if asked to do anything not already done before. A lot of propaganda and hype follows the pattern of presenting things in a way to creating misleading implications in the mind of the listener that the facts don't actually support.