What Chris Wellons thinks about compilers

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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

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1. 20 Sept 2026

   Our readingFrontier AI coding agents can now fix complex compiler bugs like LTO issues in about fifteen minutes.

   coding agents

   Their wordsStrap a frontier AI into a good coding harness, show it what's broken, give it all the sources (source.tar), and ~15 minutes later I have a patch.

   ↗What's been going on in w64devkit the past yearnullprogram.com 3rd of 3 in this piece