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Comment by nostrademons

7 days ago

You could just use a C compiler to write the assembly code from this, and it'd be far less buggy.

Before there were LLMs, there were about 65 years of other program-writing-programs to save labor.

Generally speaking, program-writing-programs (when they are not either buggy, or being updated to a new version) predictably write the same thing from the same specification according to rules.

LLMs do not replace program-writing-programs; they should be used to work with program-writing-programs, not as a replacement.

E.g. I wouldn't use an LLM to convert a grammar to LR parsing tables, but perhaps to get help with the grammar file.