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This is hilarious. But the compiler itself is working, it's just that the path to the stdlib isn't being passed properly

https://github.com/anthropics/claudes-c-compiler/issues/1#is...

It is wild that this is getting flagged!

The negativity around the lack of perfection for something that was literal fiction fiction just some years ago is amazing.

Ah, two megapixel-PNG screenshots of console text (one hidpi too!), and of some IDE showing also text (plus a lot of empty space)... Great great job, everyone.

Would appreciate unflagging this.

Why is this flagged?

They had GCC to use as an oracle/source of truth. Humans intervened multiple times. Clearly writing C compilers is a huge part of its training data—the literal definition of training on test data.

Wake me up when a model trained only on data through the year 1950 can write a C compiler.

It really can replace human engineers. Mistakes and all. I've definitely written an "example" that I didn't actually test only to find out it doesn't work

I wonder if it feels the same embarrassment and shame I do too

The anti-AI crowd proves that they do need replacing as programmers since it was user error. Opus 4.6/ChatGPT 5.3 xhigh is superior to the vast majority of programmers. Talk about grasping for straws.

Seems like a nothingburger? Mostly a spammy GitHub thread of people not reading the rest of the responses.

> Works if you supply the correct include path(s)

> Can confirm, works fine:

> You could arguably fault ccc's driver for not specifying the include path to find the native C library on this system.

> (I followed the instructions in the BUILDING_LINUX.txt file in the repo and got the kernel built for RISC-V. You can find the build I made here if someone is just interested in the binaries)