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Comment by xw333

I'm not so sure about that in the generic sense.

This sentence from the article really stuck out to me.

> and you write the rule down so clearly that nobody (human or otherwise) has to guess again.

Writing rules, or steps, unambiguously in a high level language and having those statements translated to lower level languages, that ultimately get executed by a machine, is what compilers do.

The commands you gave were not unambiguous at all and although an LLM would produce a result, the result would definitely be nonsense.

"make me a budget, here is 6 months of credit card receipts"

For example, a valid budget requires some knowledge of expected income...

parent xw333 10 days ago

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