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 codebase is the internet itself — we just never had a good compiler for it until transformers came along, framing LLMs as compiling humanity's collective output.
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