This is a use case I could see GPT really excelling—porting libraries from one programming language to another. How awesome would that be? Newish ecosystems like Rust, Crystal, Elixir, etc. could have a larger set of libraries in a shorter amount of time.
There’s still a lot of need for a human to be involved, buts it’s not hard to see how this will make individual developers more productive, especially as LLMs mature, plug themselves into interpreters, and become more capable.
There’s still a lot of need for a human to be involved, buts it’s not hard to see how this will make individual developers more productive, especially as LLMs mature, plug themselves into interpreters, and become more capable.