alt Hacker NewsDid opus have an oracle for the original compiler? If not, then it's expected that qwen would do a better job.
As is known, LLMs are amazing when verification is cheap, and much less useful when it's expensive.
Did opus have an oracle for the original compiler? If not, then it's expected that qwen would do a better job.
As is known, LLMs are amazing when verification is cheap, and much less useful when it's expensive.
> Did opus have an oracle for the original compiler?
It actually did. There was an older yacc-based implementation that had a lot of architectural limitations. We decided that it was better to start over with a better architecture, but we did have that older one around to compare generated microcode initially.