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Vibe-coded a professional C99 compiler with a broken hand (then threw it away)

AI coding, a short story: A broken right hand Voice dictation A dangerous knowledge of compilers (already built one, a decade ago) Test-driven development Rust Replit AI agent 1 calendar week, in the spare moments between business calls and Real Work(tm) Result: A C99 compiler for x86-64 and aarch64: https://github.com/jgarzik/vibe99-old Then I decided both the lexer and preprocessor design were not what I wanted, so I threw it all away and started over. This is posted, in part, because this i...

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