Yacine adds: LLMs are general compilers, but they still can't specify
yacineMTB · x · 2026-10-31
Follow-up to Yacine's "LLMs are a future general compiler" analogy: you still need to specify the problem, and models "can't specify to save themselves. Yet" — humans remain essential for formalizing problems, though he hedges with "yet."
Related event: Ex-Tesla researcher calls LLMs the universal compilers of the future(2 posts)→
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