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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by wvenable on Thursday February 05, 2026 @07:28PM (#46907437)
This is cool and actually demonstrates real utility. Using AI to take something that already exists and create it for a different library / framework / platform is cool. I'm sure there's a lot of training data in there for just this case.

But I wonder how it would fare given a language specification for a non-existent non-trivial language and build a compiler for that instead?

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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by nmstoker on Thursday February 05, 2026 @08:18PM (#46907787)
If you come up with a realistic language spec and wait maybe six months, by then it'll probably be approach being cheap enough that you could test the scenario yourself!
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