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by TeMPOraL 1205 days ago
This makes sense at the UI layer, if you're making a chatbot or an NPC for a game. But if you're at the point of prompt engineering, it makes no sense to stick to the natural language interface. It's like another iteration of the idea of "programming via conversations in natural language instead of writing code" - it sounds like it makes sense, until you realize that programming languages and the mathematics underpinning it were developed specifically because natural language is nowhere near precise enough for the job.

Or, put another way, using text/conversation as user interface in a model is turning a normal engineering problem into a much harder reverse engineering problem. Why would anyone want to make life difficult for themselves this way, and ultimately turning engineering into voodoo?