I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months, and it created a genz programming language
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Re: I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months, and it created a genz programming language
#2I'm sorry but substituting keywords does not make a new language.
You waited 3 months for a list of arbitrarily selected find/replace terms.
> how much did this cost - 1/4th of a San Francisco software engineer's monthly salary
Man, I really hope this isn't true. Spending 1/4 of an SF software engineer's monthly salary to set the planet on fire for a list of arbitrary and phenomenally-googleable find/replace terms demonstrates only bad qualities.
Re: I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months, and it created a genz programming language
#3I'm sorry but substituting keywords does not make a new language. You waited 3 months for a list of arbitrarily selected find/replace terms. > how much did this cost - 1/4th of a San Francisco software engineer's monthly salary Man, I really hope this isn't true. Spending 1/4 of an SF software engineer's monthly salary to set the planet on fire for a list of arbitrary and phenomenally-googleable find/replace terms de…
Bro, it's literally giving new language energy. Enjoy your semicolons boomer!
Re: I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months, and it created a genz programming language
#4I'm sorry but substituting keywords does not make a new language. You waited 3 months for a list of arbitrarily selected find/replace terms. > how much did this cost - 1/4th of a San Francisco software engineer's monthly salary Man, I really hope this isn't true. Spending 1/4 of an SF software engineer's monthly salary to set the planet on fire for a list of arbitrary and phenomenally-googleable find/replace terms de…
Yea I’d expect Claude to be able to one shot this and I’m pretty pessimistic about the capability of these tools. I’m just so bewildered by posts like this.
Re: I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months, and it created a genz programming language
#5I'm sorry but substituting keywords does not make a new language. You waited 3 months for a list of arbitrarily selected find/replace terms. > how much did this cost - 1/4th of a San Francisco software engineer's monthly salary Man, I really hope this isn't true. Spending 1/4 of an SF software engineer's monthly salary to set the planet on fire for a list of arbitrary and phenomenally-googleable find/replace terms de…
Well, that was the author's intent. The prompt was:
> Hey, can you make me a programming language like Golang but all the lexical keywords are swapped so they're Gen Z slang?
Re: I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months, and it created a genz programming language
#6Some of the keywords are quite sus, but I enjoyed the boolean literals being based/cringe.
Re: I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months, and it created a genz programming language
#7I'm sorry but substituting keywords does not make a new language. You waited 3 months for a list of arbitrarily selected find/replace terms. > how much did this cost - 1/4th of a San Francisco software engineer's monthly salary Man, I really hope this isn't true. Spending 1/4 of an SF software engineer's monthly salary to set the planet on fire for a list of arbitrary and phenomenally-googleable find/replace terms de…
The language is the least interesting part of this. What is interesting is if it was truly built with a simple loop and without manual involvement to produce a working compiler (albeit with fairly cursed code... 5.5kloc for a parser for a grammar that appears this simple is not great)
Sadly, the linked page glosses over the specifics of the setup and instead focused on the less interesting parts..
Re: I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months, and it created a genz programming language
#8I'm sorry but substituting keywords does not make a new language. You waited 3 months for a list of arbitrarily selected find/replace terms. > how much did this cost - 1/4th of a San Francisco software engineer's monthly salary Man, I really hope this isn't true. Spending 1/4 of an SF software engineer's monthly salary to set the planet on fire for a list of arbitrary and phenomenally-googleable find/replace terms de…
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Re: I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months, and it created a genz programming language
#9I'm sorry but substituting keywords does not make a new language. You waited 3 months for a list of arbitrarily selected find/replace terms. > how much did this cost - 1/4th of a San Francisco software engineer's monthly salary Man, I really hope this isn't true. Spending 1/4 of an SF software engineer's monthly salary to set the planet on fire for a list of arbitrary and phenomenally-googleable find/replace terms de…
Yea I’d expect Claude to be able to one shot this and I’m pretty pessimistic about the capability of these tools. I’m just so bewildered by posts like this.
One-shot a regexp, sure. One-shot a full compiler, not a chance.
Check out the repository - it has a full compiler that produces binaries, and a bunch of additional tooling. Doing that, even if he'd asked for a compiler for an existing language with no changes, is impressive.
Re: I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months, and it created a genz programming language
#10I'm sorry but substituting keywords does not make a new language. You waited 3 months for a list of arbitrarily selected find/replace terms. > how much did this cost - 1/4th of a San Francisco software engineer's monthly salary Man, I really hope this isn't true. Spending 1/4 of an SF software engineer's monthly salary to set the planet on fire for a list of arbitrary and phenomenally-googleable find/replace terms de…
The language is the least interesting part of this. What is interesting is if it was truly built with a simple loop and without manual involvement to produce a working compiler (albeit with fairly cursed code... 5.5kloc for a parser for a grammar that appears this simple is not great) Sadly, the linked page glosses over the specifics of the setup and instead focused on the less interesting parts..
It produced...something, alright. Something that can be replaced by a very small shell script.