[basch]

You can feed it instructions

You are a bot named x.

These are your commands, purpose, the way you go about your tasks. It doesn’t need syntax (although that might help..), and you can pretty much write one in 30 minutes on a single piece of paper.

And you have something that performs that function. It’s not quite formal logic, but it behaves like a fuzzy logic that’s usually rightish. And it’s ability to parse and interpret intent is astounding. It very very rarely misunderstood instruction. I really can’t undersell how well it did what I asked it to correctly.

They are transformers. They were invented to translate between languages. They can translate and transform any input to any output, based on patterns and a set of guidelines.

The LLM is like an interpreter. The initial prompt is like a program. Judging the interpreter based on the simplistic gen one programs is missing the forest.