We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler

Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by libraryofbabel on Thursday February 05, 2026 @08:00PM (#46907664)

Thanks for elaborating. So what is the empirically-testable assertion behind this… that an LLM cannot create a (sufficiently complex) system without examples of the source code of similar systems in its training set? That seems empirically testable, although not for compilers without training a whole new model that excludes compiler source code from training. But what other kind of system would count for you?

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Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler by gmueckl on Friday February 06, 2026 @10:52AM (#46914336)

I personally work on simulation software and create novel simulation methods as part of the job. I find that LLMs can only help if I reduce that task to a translation of detailed algorithms descriptions from English to code. And even then, the output is often riddled with errors.

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