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Linus Torvalds shares his thoughts on Anti-AI coding rules (thelemmy.club)
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[–] 11 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

It's not just about being deterministic. A compiler crucially follows clearly defined formal rules on what is a correct output given some input, which the programmer can fully rely on.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 hours ago

    which the programmer can fully rely on.

    Most of the time, today. Mid 90s I was constantly checking compiler output for bugs, and finding them. Early 90s the compiler bugs were finding me, particularly in Borland Turbo C++. I turned off the linker optimizer in 1992 and couldn't turn it back on until 2008 without getting difficult to identify bugs.

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