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> How is this really different from careful prompt engineering, and an extensive proposal/review/refine process? So different that those concepts don't even ex

• petcat 7mo ago
  > I don't have to carefully prompt my compiler in case it might misinterpret what I'm saying. Yes you do. You give it flags, you give it ENV vars. > My compiler comes with a precisely specified language. No, it doesn't. > I never, ever, review the output of my compiler. Yes, that's the whole point of the exercise. Have you ever reviewed the -S output from GCC? No? So do you really know what your code is doing?
  • xigoi 7mo ago
    > Yes, that's the whole point of the exercise. Have you ever reviewed the -S output from GCC? No? So do you really know what your code is doing? Because I gave it some code in a different language and it mechanically translated it through a deterministic, clearly documented process.