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100.000 lines of code for something that is literally a text book task? I guess if it only created 1.000 lines it would be easy to see where those lines came from.
> So, while this experiment excites me, it also leaves me feeling uneasy. Building this compiler has been some of the most fun I’ve had recently, but I did not expect this to be anywhere near possible so early in 2026 What? Didn’t cursed lang do something similar like 6 or 7 months ago? These bombastic marketing tactics are getting tired.
Nothing in the post about whether the compiled kernel boots.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The result is hardly a clean room implementation. It was rather a brute force attempt to decompress fuzzily stored knowledge contained within the network and it required close steering (using a big suite of tests) to get a reasonable approximation to the desired output. The compression and storage happened during the LLM training. Prove this statement wrong.
No one needs to prove you wrong. That’s just personal insecurity trying to justify ones own worth.
100.000 lines of code for something that is literally a text book task? I guess if it only created 1.000 lines it would be easy to see where those lines came from.
Generating a 99% compliant C compiler is not a textbook task in any university I've ever heard of. There's a vast difference between a toy compiler and one that can actually compile Linux and Doom.
From a bit of research now, there are only three other compilers that can compile an unmodified Linux kernel: GCC, Clang/LLVM and Intel's oneAPI. I can't find any other compiler implementation that came close.
It can compile the linux kernel, but does it boot?
They posted this video, looks like they used `qemu-system-riscv64` to test.
This is a much more reasonable take than the cursor-browser thing. A few things that make it pretty impressive: > This was a clean-room implementation (Claude did not have internet access at any point during its development); it depends only on the Rust standard library. The 100,000-line compiler can build Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V. It can also compile QEMU, FFmpeg, SQlite, postgres, redis > I started by draf…
> This was a clean-room implementation This is really pushing it, considering it’s trained on… internet, with all available c compilers. The work is already impressive enough, no need for such misleading statements.
> So, while this experiment excites me, it also leaves me feeling uneasy. Building this compiler has been some of the most fun I’ve had recently, but I did not expect this to be anywhere near possible so early in 2026 What? Didn’t cursed lang do something similar like 6 or 7 months ago? These bombastic marketing tactics are getting tired.
That's for $20,000.
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