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		dgfitz 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: -2000 Lines of code (2004) A compiler is written by very smart humans to a spec written by humans, also probably smart but I don’t know enough to claim that bit. An LLM is just displaying the next statistical token. Completely different.

bitwize 7 months ago [–]

Or, as I like to put it, pulling out the next refrigerator poetry tile from a stochastic bag of holding.

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