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A comment on Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC. Parent comment

Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by zozbot234 on Monday February 09, 2026 @05:51AM (#46943847)
You didn't even mention that this vibe-coded toy compiler cost $20k in token spend. That's an insane amount of money for what this is.
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Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by layer8 on Monday February 09, 2026 @07:08AM (#46944357)
It seems at least comparable to what you would have to pay a suitably competent developer to code up something similar.
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Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by palmotea on Monday February 09, 2026 @10:28AM (#46946285)
> It seems at least comparable to what you would have to pay a suitably competent developer to code up something similar.

No. You could have someone of fiverr do it for $5. Download gcc, done.

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Re:Claude's C Compiler vs. GCC by layer8 on Monday February 09, 2026 @01:48PM (#46949192)
If only the Claude team knew that, they could have saved a lot of tokens.
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