The author is a Principal Engineer at DeepSeek. I don't know what that title maps to in other organizations. Their formal education/background is in ML however.
The title is even more meaningless given that such a suggestion sounds totally at fundamental odds with today's state of the art compilers which need to be deterministic.
Replacing today's compilers, linkers and assemblers with LLMs (which are fundamentally stochastic preditcion models) for the use-case to compile software (not just generating correct code syntax) makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
> Their formal education/background is in ML however.
Maybe whoever this person is should read up on what the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect is.
Ask any compiler author on this very suggestion and they will question if this person is really a "Principal Engineer".
rvz|3 months ago
The title is even more meaningless given that such a suggestion sounds totally at fundamental odds with today's state of the art compilers which need to be deterministic.
Replacing today's compilers, linkers and assemblers with LLMs (which are fundamentally stochastic preditcion models) for the use-case to compile software (not just generating correct code syntax) makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
> Their formal education/background is in ML however.
Maybe whoever this person is should read up on what the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect is.
Ask any compiler author on this very suggestion and they will question if this person is really a "Principal Engineer".