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This is bait. The comment and the blog post say mostly the same thing, the debate is around the subtle edges.

It's not a "compiler," it's a "probabilistic code synthesizer guided by your constraints"

The latter is technically more specific and correct than the former, but it's 7 words instead of 1. And the word compiler is understood to encompass the latter, even if most compilers aren't that. They are both "a tool in a workflow"

He cares for the truth by making it accessible to more people.

You said it before I could. Amen.