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Comment by igravious

2 hours ago

I've gotten Claude Code to port Ruby 3.4.7 to Cosmopolitan: https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan

I kid you not. Took between a week and ten days. Cost about €10 . After that I became a firm convert.

I'm still getting my head around how incredible that is. I tell friends and family and they're like "ok, so?"

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rogual  2 hours ago

It seems like AIs work how non-programmers already thought computers worked.

  • ACCount37  6 minutes ago

    That's apt.

    One of the first thing you learn in CS 101 is "computers are impeccable at math and logic but have zero common sense, and can easily understand megabytes of code but not two sentences of instructions in plain English."

    LLMs break that old fundamental assumption. How people can claim that it's not a ground-shattering breakthrough is beyond me.

RealityVoid  1 hour ago

I am incredibly curious how you did that. You just told it... Port ruby to cosmopolitan and let it crank out for a week? Or what did you do?

I'll use these tools, and at times they give good results. But I would not trust it to work that much on a problem by itself.