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Anthropic used Claude to write a C compiler in Rust (CCC). I've really enjoyed following the discussion. The initial post shows how they wrote the harness with GCC as an oracle and a prompt specifying a design using SSA. The author has clear domain expertise. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler

I've written a website that archives all my posts/tweets/toots/skeets across different microblogging platforms! It's fun to be able to see similar posts that I wrote at completely different times. It also lets me edit links that have bitrotted.

When I wrote my first Rust program, I got the advice "just clone everything until v1 compiles". I think this OK advice, but I think a better rule of thumb is "used owned types as much as possible". I spent a ton of time returning &str or &[T] and fighting the borrow checker.