Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
by Cyphase on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:06PM
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25 is 2025.
Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
by nozzlegear on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:25PM
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Oh my bad, the way it was worded made me read it as the name of somebody's model or something.
Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
by torginus on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:07PM
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Except for Moore's law, everyone knew decades ahead of what the limits of Dennard scaling are (shrinking geometry through smaller optical feature sizes), and roughly when we would get to the limit.
Since then, all improvements came at a tradeoff, and there was a definite flattening of progress.
Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
by nozzlegear on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:28PM
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> Since then, all improvements came at a tradeoff, and there was a definite flattening of progress.
Idk, that sounds remarkably similar to these AI models to me.
Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler
by kijiki on Thursday February 05, 2026 @09:17PM
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Everyone?
Intel, at the time the unquestioned world leader in semiconductor fabrication was so unable to accurately predict the end of Dennard scaling that they rolled out the Pentium 4. "10Ghz by 2010!" was something they predicted publicly in earnest!
It, uhhh, didn't quite work out that way.
Not from me you haven't!
> "they've hit a wall, no more data, running out of data, plateau this, saturated that"
Everyone thought Moore's Law was infallible too, right until they hit that bend. What hubris to think these AI models are different!
But you've probably been hearing that for 3 years too (though not from me).
> Models keep on getting better, at more broad tasks, and more useful by the month.
If you say so, I'll take your word for it.