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The unreasonable effectiveness of fuzzing for porting programs
A simple strategy of having LLMs write fuzz tests and build up a port in topological order seems effective at automating porting from C to Rust.
Russell Power
I'm a researcher in distributed systems and machine learning. In past incarnations I led teams at Google and AI2 for ML hardware and software. This is mostly a smattering of projects I've been toying with recently.
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Stepping Back
The other day I was playing around with Claude Code, experimenting with porting some C code to Rust - not for any particular reason, just because I was curious how well it could do. As these things happen, I got more and more invested in the process, instead of just letting Claude do something and noting what…
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Reflections on Sudoku, or the Impossibility of Systematizing Thought
I reflect on the Entscheidungsproblem how it relates to Sudoku solvers. It's a little weird. .