Post #1285178
2026-03-24 16:11 UTC
@mattiem @jordanmorgan I waffled on which direction to try to hijack this conversation toward and landed on:
Elon—paraphrasing, and I can’t believe I’m invoking him—predicted that by the end of this year LLMs will be directly producing binaries more efficiently than any compiler. On one hand it’s a farfetched timeline, and the data collection is hard to reason about, but on the other hand I don’t see why that isn’t a curve that can be fit to with enough effort. What does that make them?
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@mattiem@mastodon.social 2026-03-24 17:02
@kyle @jordanmorgan I'll take this bet! I think that prediction is nonsensical (and not just because of who made it, but that certainly does hurt its credibility) The amount of context loss for such an arrangement would be tremendous. And it would simultaneously also remove virtually all well-defined language-based guardrails. And all for what for benefit exactly? But still not an abstraction! "delegation" is the only word I have ever see that feels satisfactory.