> Unless you're suggesting the language design should also be vibed together?

Sounds like a fun little project, have a bunch of AI pushers fork Zig and see if they can do a better job. I want to see results, not snarky HN comments. After all this progress, ChatGPT should be able to one-shot a better language since AI is so good now... right?

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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/

	▲	0c3ca83 17 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.

	▲	DASD an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Fabrice Bellard might be an exception.