Comment by wglb

No problem with that.

However, at one point in my career, I was frustrated with limitations in a language (Fortran II) and my curiosity got the better of me and I studied compilers thoroughly.

This led to a new job and the understanding of many new useful programming concepts. Very rewarding.

But if you are curious, studying compilers, maybe even writing a new one, will give you tools to do other things.

While working with LLMs, much of my experience gives me new ideas to push the LLM to explore.