As a forewarning, this piece may be a bit meandering, as it’s an assemblage of some previous things I never posted but that felt relevant to assemble now in light of the Anthropic blog post on getting Claude Opus 4.6 to write a C compiler. A lot of ink (okay well HN comments) has been spilled over discussing the model’s ability to do this, and if its approach was valid, and if it was actually “doing” anything besides cribbing from gcc from its actual model weights. I think these are all v...
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