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Comment by LiamPowell

> But it is misleading, if not just a bit malicious, to claim I "vibe-coded" a language without knowing about a field I've spent a decade researching about.

Sorry. See the edit at the top if you haven't already. I didn't realise how much it came off as a critique of you rather than a particular approach to software engineering.

It's easy to write something and have a model of what you're writing in your head that is massively different from how someone else will read it without realising, not that that excuses it.

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I disagree with LLMs manually writing proofs without other tools doing all the work they possibly can ever being a good solution for a couple of reasons:

1. Tokens are really expensive when we have a LLM spending hours hacking aware at a proof, not to mention generating those tokens is slow.

2. The context window becomes flooded with proof work rather than work on the original problem, which will lead to a worse solution. LLMs are demonstrably worse at writing code when you continue a session on a new task instead of starting a new one.

> It is my vision that a good proof language should be fully explicit, because this reduces proof-checking time significantly.

We can cache the results and help the checker along with assertions rather than throwing out all the smart parts of the checker.

parent LiamPowell 1 month ago

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