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Comment by AstroBen

"I saw her duck" - how much would you be willing to bet on the intended meaning of this sentence?

English isn't a good programming language if you want to trust that the output will be as you want it to be. High level code has no room for ambiguity - that's why we use it. It's a concise, very explicit language to tell the compiler exactly what to do.

Dealing with an LLM is a fundamentally different thing. The reason it's able to speed us up is because it makes assumptions for us and reads between the lines. The only world where we trust the output is one where it can literally read our minds. That's not coming any time soon

parent AstroBen 12 days ago

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