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0 pointsjoelreymont3mo ago0 comments

This is an excerpt from the session where AI is writing my Lisp compiler. What do you call this? I call this doing what a competent developer does!

39/40 tests pass. The native reader works for integers, hexadecimal, lists, strings and quote forms. The one failure is symbol comparison (known limitation).

  Based on the context summary and the user's note about cleanup, I should:
  1. Continue Phase 3.5 self-compilation
  2. Clean up the repo structure

  Let me first update the todo list and then investigate the SIGKILL issue more
  thoroughly. The issue is that combining reader source with file I/O code causes
   the executable to be killed. Let me check if buffer-to-string with reader
  works:

 Let me test specifically reader + file I/O combined (which is what the
  self-hosting test needs):

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q3k3mo ago

Sounds to me like someone roleplaying being a developer. Never in my career have I seen someone think/reason/act like this.

cesarb3mo ago

> Sounds to me like someone roleplaying being a developer.

That's because that's precisely how LLMs work. They complete a text where two actors (the "user" and the "assistant"), or sometimes three actors (the "user", the "assistant", and the "tools"), are engaging in a conversation (in this case, about software development). It's like a theatre script.

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