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by fancyfredbot 345 days ago
It used to be the case that if you wanted to write code once and run it on multiple platforms you'd use a library, and if you wanted to avoid writing code which was ISA specific you used a compiler. Now we use an LLM. This is progress. Probably. It's definitely different anyway.
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You still have to use the library, and it will still work the same way for normal scalar C code. The whole point is that the vectorization is difficult to write and an LLM just might be able to help with some cases, not all.