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> no-one reviews the machine code that a compiler outputs

That's because compilers are generally pretty trustworthy. They aren't necessarily bug free, and when you do encounter compiler bugs it can be extremely nasty, but mostly they just work

If compilers were wrong as often as LLMs are, we would be reviewing machine code constantly



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