Yacine: LLMs are a future kind of general compiler — but you still have to specify
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-31
Yacine (yacineMTB, 412K followers) offers an analogy: a compiler turns C into assembly better than any human, but that doesn't make it smarter than you. Likewise, LLMs are "a future kind of general compiler."
His follow-up adds the key caveat: you still need to specify the problem — and models "can't specify to save themselves. Yet." Execution is strong, but formalizing the problem still falls on humans.
Related event: Ex-Tesla researcher calls LLMs the universal compilers of the future(2 posts)→
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