I used to hand roll the assembly, but now I delegate that work to my agent, clang. I occasionally override clang or give it hints, but it usually gets it right most of the time.

clang doesn't "understand" the hints because it doesn't "understand" anything, but it knows what to do with them! Just like codex.

it's something that crossed my mind too honestly. natural-language-to-code translation.

Compilers are probably closer to "intelligence" than LLMs.

This is all a bit above my head. But the effects a compiler has on the computer are certainly not deterministic. It might do what you want or it might hit a weird driver bug or set off a false positive in some security software. And the more complex stacks get the he more this happens.

And so is "AI". Unless you add randomness AKA raise the temperature.

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