Being written in rust is meaningless IMHO. There is absolutely zero inherent value to something being written in rust. Sometimes it's the right tool for the job, sometimes it isn't.

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modeless 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It means that it's not directly copying existing C compiler code which is overwhelmingly not written in Rust. Even if your argument is that it is plagiarizing C code and doing a direct translation to Rust, that's a pretty interesting capability for it to have.

	▲	seba_dos1 8 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Translating things between languages is probably one of the least interesting capabilities of LLMs - it's the one thing that they're pretty much meant to do well by design.
	▲	jcalvinowens 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Surely you agree that directly copying existing code into a different language is still plagiarism? I completely agree that "reweite this existing codebase into a new language" could be a very powerful tool. But the article is making much bolder claims. And the result was more limited in capability, so you can't even really claim they've achieved the rewrite skill yet.

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Philpax 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Please don't open a bridge to the Rust flamewar from the AI flamewar :-)

	▲	jcalvinowens 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Hahaha, fair enough, but I refuse to be shy about having this opinion :)