COMPILING DINNER

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

Seeing the world through a compiler's lens makes everyday systems feel less like mysteries and more like programmable environments. Traditionally, building a compiler required deep expertise and a lot of patience. Large language models change that. It's now possible to describe rules in plain English and have models sketch out the code to tokenize, parse, and execute them. Compilers were previously a niche reserved for specialists. Now, anyone can sketch out one for their domain of interest and immediately see the connections between intent and execution.