alt.hn

2/19/2026 at 3:00:24 PM

Chris Lattner on what the Claude C compiler reveals about the future of software

https://www.modular.com/blog/the-claude-c-compiler-what-it-reveals-about-the-future-of-software

by sparklychipmunk

2/19/2026 at 8:37:05 PM

I think it's a well balanced article.

The Anthropic Marketing here has... not been. I think that it's a great signal of agent orchestration, logevity of tasks, etc, but the messaging is "Software is Over we built a C compiler that can build linux, doom, sqlite, etc".

The oracle and existing test suites were a big chunk of why this got as far as it did IMO (well besides the training data in which there have been hundreds of c compilers). I also don't see a reference to the studies that call out that they could get copyrighted works with high percentages out of models, which would should also be included.

I am currently deciding what I do with future projects with regards to open sourcing because of the world this has been creating with regards to IP.

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