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nah some dude got recently covered in press b/c he used an LLM to derive Assembly from C.
Huh? C compiles to machine code.
Yes, but why write C when we can let the LLM write assembly directly? Compilers are unnecessary bloat we don’t have a need for with modern technology.
low-level compilers can output very ugly-looking assembly. he probably did this and then used LLM to super-optimize it. may be perfomant, but id guess that theres a risk that its unsafe.
Who cares about ugly-looking assembly ? No one's gonna actually look at it, that's, like, the whole point of C. And I really doubt the plagiarism machine can somehow do better than a compiler. I'm gonna look this up
Edit : is it this one ? https://arxiv.org/html/2505.11480v1