[jiggawatts]

I just watched the latest Star Trek show and something occurred to me: the Enterprise computer acts much like an LLM. It doesn't take actions on its own, but you ask it any question about the ship, and it answers politely.

LLMs are literally science fiction come to life, something out of the movies.

It's early days still, they're a bit primitive and the compute substrate is woefully underpowered for what we would ideally like... but the promise is there.

[moffkalast]

Working with LLMs while programming is also not unlike the TNG holodeck interface. Verbal generation of the first draft, some feedback and more specific commands to get closer to the intended goal, then sometimes handmade edits to get it all the way there.