> The scrutiny applied to compilers are done by the compiler developers.
I apply scrutiny to Common Lisp compilers, and have done this for more than 20 years. I'm not a compiler developer. I don't even look under the hood, at the code of the implementations.
Instead, I run massive random testing. Billions and billions of randomly generated functions, thrown at the compiler to either try to get it to crash or to generate code that produces incorrect results (detected by differential testing with different settings or transformations that should preserve what is being computed.) It's a remarkably effective way to surface compiler bugs.
Isn't Microsoft already using LLMs to convert low efficiency components of Windows into higher efficiency implementations, for example by conversion to Rust?
Those subcultures are like that because they are small. If that became the lot of most people, society would look very different. The choice would be between Fully Automated Luxury Communism and Oligarchic Hellscape.
> Some countries can have it cheaper without nuclear, some can't.
From what I've seen, some countries have renewables comparable to nuclear for baseload power, at least for now, but in no country is new construction nuclear cheaper.
Those countries where nuclear does best will be energy ghettos in the post fossil age, as they will be competing with countries (typically sunny places closer to the equator) with cheap renewables.
Citation needed.
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