Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC

Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by flexagoon on Monday February 09, 2026 @02:58AM (#46942738)

> I expect within the next ~2 years AI tools will produce a better compiler than gcc.

Building a "better compiler than gcc" is a matter of cutting-age scientific research, not of being able to write good code

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Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by xigoi on Monday February 09, 2026 @07:13AM (#46944402)

Given that GCC is in the training data, it should not take much research to create an equally good compiler.

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Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by flexagoon on Sunday February 15, 2026 @01:52AM (#47021612)

If reproducing data from the training set counts, then creating an equally good compiler is a matter of running `git clone` :D

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