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I don't understand the point of this. If they wanted to make a Python interpreter, why didn't they just ask an AI to do it?
by ssfdg 19d ago
I don't understand the point of this. If they wanted to make a Python interpreter, why didn't they just ask an AI to do it?
- Donald 19d ago> To feel human, I write code by hand on the weekends. "Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing." - Troilus and Cressida
- bblb 19d agoWhy do anything. Why even do the AI version of this. Probably curiosity. If there's an AI version of code golfing, I'd be curious to see it. Maybe they golf worse or much better than us meat bags.
- userbinator 19d agoJust ask your preferred AI tool if it can shrink the OP's code while keeping the same functionality; I suspect it could. At this point, LLMs are probably no worse than an average human at sizecoding or targeting resource-constrained platforms in general; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226923 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49226923 is a recent example of how powerful they've become.
- CornerPlot 19d ago[dead]
- timbit42 19d agoThe first line of the article answers this.