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| ▲ | spankalee 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| One-shot, no, but there are a bunch of people pretty much solo-building their personal ideal language with AI and it's going quite well. You need to know just enough about language design to be dangerous, but you don't need to be a seasoned pro. I'm doing it myself: https://zena-lang.dev/ |
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| ▲ | 0c3ca83 18 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | It seems like such a strange thing to do, building a language that you aren't going to write by hand. It's guaranteed to perform worse at higher cost, fill up a lot more of the context window, and burn a ton more reasoning tokens. If you're using AI, a language with a large training set is going to win. | |
| ▲ | Karrot_Kream 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Been thinking about doing this myself (did some PL in grad school but it's been a long time), but I find myself wanting to reach for a Scheme (using macros to grow the language I want) and customize it or build something atop Janet. Curious why you wanted a more ML / Rust / Scala inspired syntax. (Personal preference here is totally valid btw, just curious.) |
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| ▲ | agentultra 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Claude can’t one-shot a C compiler. None of these systems can. They need enormous training. They need alignment and reinforcement. They need harnesses. And most importantly they need a human that knows how to write and develop a C compiler. The ISO specifications are not sufficient. Neither are the System V guidelines. Not even spec tests and compcert. |
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| ▲ | UncleOxidant 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You're not going to one-shot it, but over the course of a couple of months of evenings you could come up with something usable/interesting if you manage the LLM well. |
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| ▲ | IshKebab 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Nobody is one-shotting big projects. Even humans can't do that. |
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