Post #1939400
2026-05-04 03:37 UTC
a hackernews vibe-codes their entire desktop environment, half in rust and half in … x86 assembly. I’m thinking why waste the tokens on assembly and not just get the LLM to spit out machine code? Maybe also invent some kind of standardized way of telling the LLM what sequence of machine code instructions to spit out based on the behavior of the software I want, you know, to save tokens. We can call it “GCC”, the “generalized computer controller”.
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@gerikson@awful.systems 2026-05-04 06:22
Showed up first on Lobste.rs (by 42 min by my stats) with the author themselves as a submitter: lobste.rs/s/klw6bu most of the discussion is about whether they’re a spammer or a promptfondler. HN seems more enthusiastic