This is a weird post as the generated program doesn’t even output results.

I tried a similar test using Python and Claude Code and it generated something that outputted a sorted list of directory contents, like ls.

However, unlike the author, this doesn’t lead me to think this is AGI. How many posts are there out there that these models would be trained on have people explaining strace outputs and comparing code to them?

I think you can significantly save on your claude tokens if you just give the llm `head -n 1 TRACE`

      execve("/usr/bin/ls", ["ls"], 0x7fff7e969540 /* 110 vars */)

Some how it figures out how to implement `ls`. That indeed shouldn't be possible. It puts an AI skeptic into believing we're in post-AGI territory here.

Edit: tbf, I did not notice they replaced `ls` with `lol` in the trace file to avoid this, but still. To think the strace of ls was never part of the training data of the LLM then to think that is enough to somehow reverse engineer what binary blob is is insane thinking https://github.com/ghuntley/strace-to-application/blob/trunk...

This is a troll, right? The strace for "ls" on my system consists of 1) checking if selinux is enabled (which their re-implementation does not do), 2) openat -> fstat -> getdents64, 3) writing out the information those syscalls gave you.

Jumping from "oh my gosh you can (incorrectly) reimplement ls from a trace of syscalls" to "this means the end of binary blobs" is a level of detachment from reality I've most recently seen from Geoff Lewis. Never mind that the author mixes up eBPF tracing and strace.

Why does this guy keep using words like “skeptical” and then demonstrating the opposite attitude?

Do I have to do all the skepticism myself? FFS!

Why is this impossible? If the LLM has effectively seen all the code that could lead to that trace, all it has to do is to pick the bits out that has the highest chance to map to it right?

Is it a new marketing strategy to start by saying you're "incredibly cynical" about something that you're going to say the exact opposite about, perhaps to mask arguments with little rigor?

This guy's such a weird writer. Speaking like he discovered YOLO mode and called it the Ralph Wiggum method.

This was underwhelming, but I like his websites styling.