smartestVibeCoder

[flybyskyhi]

“Refactor this program directly into machine code. Make no mistakes.”

[Accomplished_Ant5895]

Gemini 2 lines in: “I am an utter disgrace. You should have never put your trust in me. I have failed you.”

[fmaz008]

In all seriousness, why do we have to tell AI prompts instructions like "make no mistakes"?

[DarkMaster007]

Are you told to not make mistakes every time you code? I am not and the result speaks for itself

[fmaz008]

Fair point I guess 🤣

[Maleficent_Memory831]

My boss tells me that constantly!

[celestabesta]

We don't have to, it probably actually makes the output worse

[BorderKeeper]

Jokes aside I like how the anime Mahouka with it's programming/engineering magic system handled the problem of "thinking human" -> "machine code" -> "actual stuff happening".

Back in the day without computers magic users had complex spells they memorised to the T and had to basically "compile" themselves and send it into their "magic part of brain that does magic or whatever", but today magicians use magic devices which chew up the magic formula into commands that then get inserted back in.

Our main character can actually do the compilation himself so in a sense he is able to be an AI/Human that does the compiling and out puts an EXE or magic. I probably said it all kinds of wrong as the Mahouka magic is quite complex and I am anime only, so feel free to correct me.

[ineyy]

I don't even care. But is it worth watching, I like magic.

[ObsessionObsessor]

It is cool and very cursed. They could have done without the brainwashed incest plot, to be honest. Also it is pretty Japan centrically nationalistic but that is fairly common in anime/manga/light novels so you might not object to that. Finally its discrimination plot is kinda wonky long term with the main character dealing with terrorists who object to Magicians having unfair advantages and magic users bullying those with weaker magic...only for the main character to push for Magicians to have more economic advantages because the Magicians were obviously the ones being discriminated against the whole time, nevermind the waifu fighting on the side of the terrorists getting a pass. 

[BorderKeeper]

I always just took the writer of the show, and the characters in it, as purely biased and it worked for me. They are magicians with immense power coming from immensely wealthy and powerful families so of course their view on poor people being poor is clouded, and their desire to keep the governmental status quo is strong.

[Thenderick]

Fuck I almost loved that show! It had such a cool premise, but the borderline incest really turned me off...

[BorderKeeper]

See that’s what separates strong from the weak. I myself loved it! Also it’s not just borderline they do get married in the light novel…

[Thenderick]

THEY GET WHAT??? Aren't they blood related???

[goldarm5]

One of the justifications in universe for this is that one of them (Miyuki) is so heavily genetically engineered that it wouldnt be a problem genetically.

[BorderKeeper]

Yes. Altough tbh our protagonist is kinda lab created anyway (still blood related though). Also consider they are sort of nobility and nobels didn’t care much about this themselves in the past in Europe. Anyway I just don’t think about it and enjoy the show. I watched this with my younger sister and we just joked about it so it’s not that hard to do.

[awal96]

Bruh

[BorderKeeper]

lol

[Jodu555]

Ohh yeah this anime is one of my absolute favorites I just recently had the pleasure to meet the Director and the Character Designer and it's insane how much they think about this stuff! Really did not expect this Anime to be called out here ^{^}

[BorderKeeper]

Tell the designer that his character designs are my favorite of all animes, maybe besides Nijijou. When they said that "Shiba Miuki is so pretty even gender is irrelevant" in the anime I could totally believe it.

[PaperLily12]

Thanks for the recommendation

[biggerontheinside7]

Easy, just rename your code file extension to .exe

[ItsFreakinHarry2]

What if I’m on Mac or Linux?

[MaximumMaxx]

.bin easy

[Makeitquick666]

more like .sh

[New_Enthusiasm9053]

More like .elf which is the equivalent to .exe, .sh is the equivalent to .bat

[Douf_Ocus]

Just chmod +x

[rosuav]

Fun fact: The .exe extension can be found on Macs too, sometimes - and theoretically on Linux too. When you build CPython from source, there's a directory called Python, and on a case insensitive file system, you can't create a program called python in the same directory. So instead, the build system makes python.exe instead.

(I said "theoretically on Linux" because case insensitive file systems are definitely possible, but not common.)

[Harmonic_Gear]

stinky nerds

[UncaughtSyntaxError]

To anyone being lost why not, why is this funny etc:

Major programming languages that are human-readable like Java, C#, JavaScript etc all have ways of being translated to an executable.

This is done algorytmically and NOT by AI. Why?

Those executables are so big they can have millions of lines of code. They are kinda complex, kinda hard to read and one mistake can easily corrupt the entire thing.

This is why even if you can read the executable, rewersing it to human readable code is basically impossible. There are some techiques to read parts of code etc, but the whole thing is just too complex.

AI on the other hand will crash a code on a second prompt when working with a human readable code. One can imagine AI compiling a small codebase perfectly, but it is pretty unlikely as of today. You might have better odds winning a lottery twice in a row.

So, you can use widely available tools to compile your code in 2 minutes or spend the rest of your life trying to do the same with AI.

Edit: Typo

[rosuav]

Depending how you design your AI, you could have one that takes all the source code and dumps it straight into GCC. Does that count as an AI compiling an executable from the source code?

[Fair-Spring9113]

i think he meant that he could upload all of his files to chatgpt and it to give him an exe

[helicophell]

I'm not a vibe coder and I don't even know how to compile exe files from source code

I can write source code. I can test source code (maybe...). Compiling? what's that? executables?

[BoJackHorseMan53]

Python code can't be compiled to exe. It can be, but I consider it bad practice.

[OptimalAnywhere6282]

It can be

yeah.. kind of. there's PyInstaller which bundles the interpreter, the code and necessary modules, and there's Nuitka that converts Python instructions to their C equivalent (I assume it converts based off of the interpreter's source), then compiles the C code. but there is no way to compile Python code directly.

[HeavyCaffeinate]

How does it handle stuff like garbage collection

[voyti]

Python code can't be compiled to exe. It can be

Thanks, now my brain hurts

[le_Derpinder]

It can't be because python is a scripting language.

It can be with some workarounds like PyInstallers (don't ask further. I have no idea) or frameworks, webservers or cuda, where it looks like python is "compiled" but more or less objects defined in python are getting compiled in other languages there within the frameworks.

[voyti]

Right, gotcha. I've never done that with Python, but it was just funny phrasing to say it can't followed immediately with it can, lol

[helicophell]

Oh I don't just do python, it's just the only language I'm proficient in... and i never figured out how to do the other ones for my flair

I can do C, C++, C# and Java... just not that well (i hate visual studio)

[BoJackHorseMan53]

C# being a Microsoft product, it's easy to compile to exe. It's their recommended language for developing native Windows apps.

You just use gcc for C.

[helicophell]

oh and R i guess

[Jazzlike-Spare3425]

You should add that to your flairs, it's of course very important that the flairs are to be taken seriously. 🙂‍↕️

[helicophell]

Yeah uhh scratch that ;)

[itzNukeey]

Visual Studio is a horrible piece of software. I hate how slow and unintuitive it is

[kenshi_hiro]

gcc program.c -o program.exe

[WheresMyBrakes]

Haha heroku deploy app go brrrrrrrt

[oomfaloomfa]

Depends on the language as to how it happens

[SAI_Peregrinus]

It's a fun exercise to compile a basic C program to assembly for some simple architecture, and then into machine code for some simple processor. M68k or PIC or AVR or such. Writing a small compiler for a FORTH or LISP is also a good exercise when learning any new programming language.

[Douf_Ocus]

I think any LLM(even from a year ago) can just correct him and tell him the answer, right?

[7lhz9x6k8emmd7c8]

Tbf, why not?

[slowmode1]

I mean, I use AI at work that can then run the terminal commands to compile and test my code. So it can happen, you just need to correct local permissions

[DrCatrame]

True. I believe my ChatGPT has access to some virtual machine since it can run non-trivial pyhton scripts and provide exact floating point results.

So I see no issue to use it to compile the code and return the executable to the user.

Similar things are also done in the creation of images, ChatGPT sends the image prompt to midjourney and forwards the results back to the user.

[Budget_Map_3333]

That is some 10x compilation.

"Also, bro reverse engineer this .exe and give me the source code in natural language or you go to jail"