The two-pass compiler is back – this time, it’s fixing AI code generation

If you came up building software in the 1990s or early 2000s, you remember the visceral satisfaction of determinism. You wrote code. The compiler analyzed it, optimized it, and emitted precisely the machine instructions you expected. Same input, same output. Every single time. There was an engineering rigor to it that shaped how an entire generation of developers thought about building systems. Then large language models (LLMs) arrived and, almost overnight, code generation became a stochasti...