minus-squaredovel@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th February 2026linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 months agoIt seems that Anthropic has vibe coded a C compiler. This one is really good! The generated code is not very efficient. Even with all optimizations enabled, it outputs less efficient code than GCC with all optimizations disabled. linkfedilink
minus-squaredovel@awful.systemstoTechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·6 months agoThis has never been tried before and is a completely new idea. linkfedilink
It seems that Anthropic has vibe coded a C compiler. This one is really good! The generated code is not very efficient. Even with all optimizations enabled, it outputs less efficient code than GCC with all optimizations disabled.