Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC

Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by Ygg2 on Monday February 09, 2026 @02:41AM (#46942627)

> It's a system based on LLMs.

What you said is:

    > First, remember when we had LLMs run optimisation passes last year? Alphaevolve doing square packing

If I start a sentence:

    First, remember the fish intelligence competition last year? Rossie jumped through a hula hoop.

I, and other readers (probably), would think Rossie is a fish. Not a dog. Even if you can technically group dogs as a sort of fish descendant.

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Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by NitpickLawyer on Monday February 09, 2026 @05:23AM (#46943670)

I have no idea what you're arguing. Alphaevolve is similar to claude code. They are using LLMs in a harness. No idea what you mean with fish, kidneys and so on. Can you please stick to the technical stuff? Otherwise it's just noise.

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Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by Ygg2 on Monday February 09, 2026 @05:50AM (#46943838)

I'm arguing your writing is unclear and confusing. You can't continue a sentence and pretend the new sentence isn't related to the previous one.

Alpha Evolve is made from LLMs, but it's not the only part. If anything, it needs a genetic algo component. LLMs generally don't evolve.

Also, why are you focusing on AlphaEvolve? I made two other points you haven't addressed.

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Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by NitpickLawyer on Monday February 09, 2026 @06:12AM (#46943989)

You have no idea what alphaevolve is, yet you try to correct me. This isn't productive, I'm out.

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Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by Ygg2 on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:05AM (#46946740)

First off, let's say I'm wrong about Alpha Evolve. Fine, I made two more points; address them as well; that's just normal manners in a conversation.

Second, I question your idea of what Alpha Evolve is. You seem to think it's an LLM or LLM-adjacent when it's more like an evolutionary algo picking a better seed among the LLMs. That's not an LLM, if anything, it has some ability to correct itself.

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