1. The experiment was to show that AI can generate working code for a fairly complicated spec. Was it even asked to do things in a novel way? If not, why would we expect it do anything other than follow tried and tested approaches?
2. Compilers have been studied for decades, so it's reasonable to presume humans have already found the most optimal architectures and designs. Should we complain that the AI "did nothing novel" or celebrate because it "followed best practices"?
I'm actually curious, are there radically different compiler designs that people have hypothesized but not yet built for whatever reasons? Maybe somebody should repeat the experiment explicitly prompting AI agents to try novel designs out, would be fascinating to see the results.
1. The experiment was to show that AI can generate working code for a fairly complicated spec. Was it even asked to do things in a novel way? If not, why would we expect it do anything other than follow tried and tested approaches?
2. Compilers have been studied for decades, so it's reasonable to presume humans have already found the most optimal architectures and designs. Should we complain that the AI "did nothing novel" or celebrate because it "followed best practices"?
I'm actually curious, are there radically different compiler designs that people have hypothesized but not yet built for whatever reasons? Maybe somebody should repeat the experiment explicitly prompting AI agents to try novel designs out, would be fascinating to see the results.