Comment by giancarlostoro
9 hours ago
I think you answered your own problem: telling it what assembly you're expecting, get it to build the foundation before you start asking it how the tiles should look.
Right now I'm working on a compiler / runtime for a more complicated language than Python or C and while its "slower" I know that once it's done through this run I'll be able to have it focus on optimizations, especially with rigorous tests that some languages have to test their compilers. I have plans to run back to Culebral, but I have to scratch a bigger itch I've had, people like you who've told me repeatedly that an LLM cannot be used to build a compiler. So here I am, slowly chugging at it, getting decades of developer effort worked through every week.
If I'm wrong, so be it, if I'm right, it'll be fun to release. :)
It doesn't take a decade to write a compiler for a language. If you're putting months of your own effort into it, it's not clear that the LLM is even increasing your productivity.