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andrewstuart ◴[] No.44295792[source]
He’s saying it’s not faster because he needs to impose his human analysis on it which is slow.

That’s fine, but it’s an arbitrary constraint he chooses, and it’s wrong to say AI is not faster. It is. He just won’t let it be faster.

Some won’t like to hear this, but no-one reviews the machine code that a compiler outputs. That’s the future, like it or not.

You can’t say compilers are slow because I add on the time I take to Analyse the machine code. That’s you being slow.

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1. bluefirebrand ◴[] No.44295938[source]
> no-one reviews the machine code that a compiler outputs

That's because compilers are generally pretty trustworthy. They aren't necessarily bug free, and when you do encounter compiler bugs it can be extremely nasty, but mostly they just work

If compilers were wrong as often as LLMs are, we would be reviewing machine code constantly