Comment by ares623
17 hours ago
It's the same thing with their gcc stunt.
It would be _so_ easy to alleviate any doubt from this and hype up the IPO even more. They just need start a separate repo with all the hidden work they needed to do to prod the AI along, and let everyone replicate the results. After all, isn't that what all their customers are trying to achieve? A million lines of usable code in "7" days? Never mind the fact that it will also boost Anthropic's usage metrics as everyone tries to replicate it into their workflows.
If it was beautiful, they would've started with a blog post about this with links and instructions. Perhaps I will still be proven wrong and a blog post is being written as I type this.
Which part of a Zig to Rust port (working, passing tests) of a quite large codebase in a little over a week is not worthy of hype do you reckon? That they didn't one-shot it? What could possibly make it impressive if not the sheer velocity of the thing? That's a months or years long operation for a human. There's a reason porting large programs to new languages was vanishingly rare throughout most of computing history, and there's a reason people are suddenly doing it almost on a whim, now.