Comment by ajross
19 days ago
> I wrote a couple hobby compilers.
So did most of us, join the club. What you can't do is write such a compiler for $20k if you want to put food on the table, or do it in two weeks (what it costs to buy your time currently until AI eats your job). And let's be honest: it's not going to build something of the complexity of Linux either. Hobby compilers run hobby code. Giant decades-old source trees test edge cases like no one's business.
I don't really get what you're arguing. Yes, battle hardened compilers are great. No, I can't write one in two weeks, and neither can a group of AI bots.
The result is a heap of technical debt so unmanageably large that it's almost an exponential cost to keep adding to it.