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Claude Is Not a Compiler

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Re: Claude Is Not a Compiler

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Post by formerly_proven »

customguy wrote: post #2

Nevermind "comments", has anyone with a name and reputation claimed they are?

Spec-driven development is sold on the idea that you regenerate modules or entire services when you change the spec. It's a really dumb idea but was briefly popular in enterprise, probably still is in some companies.

Re: Claude Is Not a Compiler

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Post by tossandthrow »

formerly_proven wrote: post #3
customguy wrote: post #2

Nevermind "comments", has anyone with a name and reputation claimed they are?

Spec-driven development is sold on the idea that you regenerate modules or entire services when you change the spec. It's a really dumb idea but was briefly popular in enterprise, probably still is in some companies.

A compiler does not transalte specs to code.

Specs are denotational by nature.

A program could synthesize a program that adheres to the specs. But that is not what we understand by a compiler that generally has to preserve operational semantics.

Re: Claude Is Not a Compiler

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Post by couchand »

The argument being made here is really incredible when you unpack it.

1) The construction of the Empire State Building was particularly effective due to the depth of human-to-human collaboration.

2) Isn't it great that we can burn a bunch of dinosaur blood to convince ourselves that we don't need other humans?

Re: Claude Is Not a Compiler

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Post by eigencoder »

I really like what exe.dev is doing. And their philosophy of how cloud services could work is amazing. I have a monthly subscription and it's really cool to just vibe code a little website with Shelley and have it running in minutes. I feel like I have so much fun using their service, and spend so much less time thinking about what things will cost, or what cloud service to use. It's just so much simpler and the friction is so much less compared to other cloud services.

Re: Claude Is Not a Compiler

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Post by torginus »

> But our VMs start fast, so fast that even if we created the DNS entries before creating the VM, our users still had to sit around waiting for DNS to propagate, which occasionally took minutes, not seconds.

To my (limited) understanding, this is not a good idea, and is an unfixable problem from the server side. Companies, VPNs or ISPs or routers, often use their own DNS servers, and those can have caching logic, which means it doesn't matter how fast your own DNS implementation is, as the users lookup request wont hit your DNS server, it'll hit an intermediate cache.

Re: Claude Is Not a Compiler

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Post by lukasschwab »

customguy wrote: post #2

Nevermind "comments", has anyone with a name and reputation claimed they are?

The title is a reference back to "Is Claude Code a Compiler?" by the same author, linked from the first sentence: https://commaok.xyz/ai/is-claude-a-compiler/

And then claim is attributed right there:

> The hands-down highlight was the talk by Erik Schluntz: Vibe coding in prod.

> Among other things, he drew an analogy between LLMs and compilers.

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