[zozbot234]

Is it really a secret, when Anthropic posted a project of building a C compiler totally from scratch for $20k equivalent token spend, as an official article on their own blog? $20k is quite insane for such a self-contained project, if that's genuinely the amount that these tools require that's literally the best possible argument for running something open and leveraging competitive 3rd party inference.

[smaudet]

An article over, these claims are exaggerated - they have dumped the tinycc compiler, not written one from scratch.

[dboreham]

I don't think tinycc can compile the Linux kernel into a bootable image.

[Calavar]

It could once upon a time: https://www.bellard.org/tcc/tccboot.html

It can't do that today though. Linux uses C11 features and also many GCC extensions that tcc doesn't implement.

[simonw]

tinycc wasn't written in Rust.

[direwolf20]

If you get paid $120k and could do it in 2 months, seems about right