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by CamperBob2 1136 days ago
English is a programming language now. That is what is being demonstrated here. Code is still being written; it just looks more like instructions given to a human programmer.

Eventually, human languages will be the only high-level programming languages. Everything else will be thought of the way we currently think of assembly code: a tool of last resort, used only in unusual circumstances when nothing else will do.

And it looks like "Eventually" means "In a year or two."

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English is a programming language once you stop looking at or storing the output of the LLM. Like a binary. I'm not seeing anybody store their prompts in a source repo and hooking it directly up to their build pipeline.
We'll be adding flakey code gen to our flakey tests, because someone will do this