iamtrask: the internet is the world's largest codebase, transformers are its compiler
iamtrask · x · 2026-09-19
iamtrask argues that the world's largest software codebase is the internet itself — we just lacked a good compiler for it until transformers came along. A one-line take framing LLM training as compiling humanity's internet knowledge.
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