Post #3982955

2026-07-21 10:00 UTC

Considering this is the logical endpoint of the “LLM’s are just like compilers bro” line of thought, I’m not surprised at all.

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@rook@awful.systems 2026-07-21 14:35

Nah, this isn’t the endpoint… you want something like prompt2exe, which is a performance art piece. Gets an llm to output machine code, and bundles it into an executable. no package dependencies and invokes no assembler, compiler, or system linker. Hardcore mode. No handholding for puny human devs by their tool chains. 🦾 Probably impractical for normal people to run, unless they have an employer who wants their minions to be burning all the tokens and pays up for the expensive kind of accounts.

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@diz@awful.systems 2026-07-21 15:43

I think there’s something to the compilers analogy, in the sense that if you used a C compiler through a chat interface to insert snippets into assembly without keeping the source code, it would probably be slower than just writing in assembly yourself. That LLMs have a number of extremely undesirable properties as “compilers” (from nondeterminism to plagiarism) does not make the dumb ass chat interface any less fundamentally shit.

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