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I think it's worth more scrutiny today, rather than less. Your claude code can barf out "a rewrite" but is it any good? So far the answer is "no" (see anthropic

by tra3 12d ago

I think it's worth more scrutiny today, rather than less. Your claude code can barf out "a rewrite" but is it any good? So far the answer is "no" (see anthropic's C compiler, or a more recent port of bun). Software is still the best specification for existing behavior..

lopatin 12d ago
I'm not following because a) The bun rewrite was a success b) the C compiler wasn't a rewrite and c) "Software is still the best specification for existing behavior" seems to imply that rewrites are achievable because we already have a working version that functions as a spec?