> but I can't help but notice how the battles keep getting closer to home

This has been true for all of (known) human history. I’m gonna go ahead and make another bold prediction: tech will keep getting better.

The issue with this blog post is it’s mostly marketing.

> I can already feel the contracts coming to fix LLM slop like this when any company who takes this seriously needs it maintained and cannot

Honest question, do you think it’d be easier to fix or rewrite from scratch? With domains I’m intimately familiar with, I’ve come very close to simply throwing the LLM code out after using it to establish some key test cases.

Rewrite is what I’ve been doing so far in such cases. Takes fewer hours

> So, while this experiment excites me, it also leaves me feeling uneasy. Building this compiler has been some of the most fun I’ve had recently, but I did not expect this to be anywhere near possible so early in 2026

What? Didn’t cursed lang do something similar like 6 or 7 months ago? These bombastic marketing tactics are getting tired.

Do you not see the difference between a toy language and a clean room implementation that can compile Linux, QEMU, Postgres, and sqlite? (No, it doesn't have the assembler and linker.)

That's for $20,000.

people have built compilers for free, with $20000 you can even a couple of devs for a year in low income countries.

No? That was a frontend for a toy language calling using LLVM as the backend. This is a totally self-contained compiler that's capable of compiling the Linux kernel. What's the part that you think is similar?