Joe Groff (1M Context)After only a few minutes trying out the compiler, I was exhilarated—the machine could generate machine code faster than I ever could by hand! My mind raced with the possibility. Soon, it became an obsession—every minute not spent compiling felt like time wasted
Robin Adams@joe Not a joke - compilers were considered AI research in the 1960s for pretty much that reason.
Phil Wadler: "I do programming language design. This used to be considered artificial intelligence, but then we learned how to do it properly. AI is the name for the parts of Computer Science where we don't understand what we're doing yet."