I'm sorry but substituting keywords does not make a new language.
You waited 3 months for a list of arbitrarily selected find/replace terms.
> how much did this cost - 1/4th of a San Francisco software engineer's monthly salary
Man, I really hope this isn't true. Spending 1/4 of an SF software engineer's monthly salary to set the planet on fire for a list of arbitrary and phenomenally-googleable find/replace terms demonstrates only bad qualities.
swader999•2h ago
Bro, it's literally giving new language energy. Enjoy your semicolons boomer!
roxolotl•2h ago
Yea I’d expect Claude to be able to one shot this and I’m pretty pessimistic about the capability of these tools. I’m just so bewildered by posts like this.
vidarh•2h ago
One-shot a regexp, sure. One-shot a full compiler, not a chance.
Check out the repository - it has a full compiler that produces binaries, and a bunch of additional tooling. Doing that, even if he'd asked for a compiler for an existing language with no changes, is impressive.
philipp-gayret•2h ago
Well, that was the author's intent. The prompt was:
> Hey, can you make me a programming language like Golang but all the lexical keywords are swapped so they're Gen Z slang?
vidarh•2h ago
The language is the least interesting part of this. What is interesting is if it was truly built with a simple loop and without manual involvement to produce a working compiler (albeit with fairly cursed code... 5.5kloc for a parser for a grammar that appears this simple is not great)
Sadly, the linked page glosses over the specifics of the setup and instead focused on the less interesting parts..
BugsJustFindMe•2h ago
It produced...something, alright. Something that can be replaced by a very small shell script.
vidarh•2h ago
And that is entirely irrelevant, as the purpose was to produce a compiler.
As an experiment this is amazing in terms of telling us a lot about how capable these tools are. Most developers would not be capable of producing a working compiler and the associated tooling in this kind of timeframe.
pxndxx•2h ago
Some of the keywords are quite sus, but I enjoyed the boolean literals being based/cringe.
rich_sasha•2h ago
For completeness: how much does this cost? Asking as a dinosaur normie who has never paid for LLMs. Genuinely curious.
sethaurus•1h ago
According to the author[0], the total spend was $14k USD.
3 versions... Yikes. But the output, while messy, is still impressive, and makes me wonder how much you could trim that down by giving more comprehensive instructions.
4b11b4•2h ago
I consider this adjacent to AI psychosis...
dobladov•2h ago
This is the software equivalent of purchasing a 3d printing without goals and printing all those useless toys that will be used once and forgotten
juancn•2h ago
I kinda like that `var` is `sus`.
EmptyCoffeeCup•1h ago
Confused...
If "struct" is "squad"
Why is it "struct" in his example?
arunix•1h ago
Recently, I wondered what would happen if two of these systems were set up doing mutual pair programming ...
BugsJustFindMe•2h ago
You waited 3 months for a list of arbitrarily selected find/replace terms.
> how much did this cost - 1/4th of a San Francisco software engineer's monthly salary
Man, I really hope this isn't true. Spending 1/4 of an SF software engineer's monthly salary to set the planet on fire for a list of arbitrary and phenomenally-googleable find/replace terms demonstrates only bad qualities.
swader999•2h ago
roxolotl•2h ago
vidarh•2h ago
Check out the repository - it has a full compiler that produces binaries, and a bunch of additional tooling. Doing that, even if he'd asked for a compiler for an existing language with no changes, is impressive.
philipp-gayret•2h ago
> Hey, can you make me a programming language like Golang but all the lexical keywords are swapped so they're Gen Z slang?
vidarh•2h ago
Sadly, the linked page glosses over the specifics of the setup and instead focused on the less interesting parts..
BugsJustFindMe•2h ago
vidarh•2h ago
As an experiment this is amazing in terms of telling us a lot about how capable these tools are. Most developers would not be capable of producing a working compiler and the associated tooling in this kind of timeframe.