alt Hacker NewsThat is fighting the last war on the early days of 5 GLs, and taken care by agentic runtimes.
This isn't futurology, besides a few projects that already came up on Phoronix and around here, with Assembly generation, there are enough SIGPLAN papers on ML driven compilers already.
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anthk • today at 3:28 AM
Like inform7 but irreproducible and shitter on every iteration.
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ML driven compilers are different than LLM assembly generation, and former is more sound than the latter one. I believe we both have enough experience to understand that.
However, starting with LLMs directly generating machine code and moving to ML directed optimization passes, you're moving the whole stadium with a crawler-transporter, not only the goalposts.
Helping compiler in a well defined way, and working on IR or driving it repeatedly to optimize the output is one thing, generating machine code from a training set is other. Let's not mix them.