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Whilst LLMs don't always give an accurate answer, the UI is really compelling. I keep finding users whose favourite way of doing research is an LLM.

I would have thought that invoking a C compiler would be a solved problem. Looking at Rust's cc crate there's a remarkable long tail of corner cases to fix. Exotic CPUs, microarchitectures, compiler differences, operating system differences, etc. https://github.com/rust-lang/cc-rs/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

Some delightful examples of good compiler error messages in the latest Gleam release: https://gleam.run/news/context-aware-compilation/