Comment by lelanthran
21 days ago
> You may be willing to sell your work at that price, but that’s not the market rate, to put it very mildly.
It is now.
At any rate, this is my actual rate. I live in South Africa, and that's about 4 weeks of work for me, without an AI.
Deal. I'll pay you IF you can achieve the same level of performance. Heck, I'll double it.
You must provide the entire git history with small commits.
I won't be holding my breath.
> Deal. I'll pay you IF you can achieve the same level of performance. Heck, I'll double it.
> You must provide the entire git history with small commits.
> I won't be holding my breath.
Sure; I do this often (I operate as a company because I am a contractor) - money to be held in escrow, all the usual contracts, etc.
It's a big risk for you, though - the level of performance isn't stated in the linked article so a parser in Python is probably sufficient.
TCC, which has in the past compiled bootable Linux images, was only around 15k LoC in C!
For reference, for a engraved-in-stone spec, producing a command-line program (i.e. no tech stack other than a programming language with the standard library), a coder could reasonably produce +5000LoC per week.
Adding the necessary extensions to support booting isn't much either, because the 16-bit stuff can be done just the same as CC did it - shell out to GCC (thereby not needing many of the extensions).
Are you *really* sure that a simple C compiler will cost more than 4 weeks f/time to do? It takes 4 weeks or so in C, are you really sure it will take longer if I switch to (for example) Python?
And having TCC, GCC, CLANG and any other project lying around as cheat sheet, as the trained model, in some way, had.
> the level of performance isn't stated in the linked article so a parser in Python is probably sufficient.
No, you'll have to match the performance of the actual code, regardless of what happens to be written in the article. It is a C compiler written in Rust.
Obviously. Your games reveal your malign intent.
EDIT: And good LORD. Who writes a C compiler in python. Do you know any other languages?!?
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You seem to have doubled down on a bluff that was already called.
Naw. I got him to reveal himself, which was the whole point.
It's amazing what you can get people to do.
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That’s a VERY nice rate for SA; approximately what I charge in the UK. I assume these are not local companies who hire you.
> That’s a VERY nice rate for SA; approximately what I charge in the UK. I assume these are not local companies who hire you.
A local Fintech needing PCI work pays that, but that's not long-term contracts.