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by sirspacey 655 days ago
This is the fundamental change in the concept of programming

From computer’s doing exactly what you state, with all the many challenges that creates

To is probabilistically solving for your intent, with all the many challenges that creates

Fair to say human beings probably need both to effectively communicate

Will be interesting to see if the current GenAI + ML + prompt engineering + code is sufficient

2 comments

Nah man. This isn’t solving anything. This is praying to a machine god but it’s an autocomplete under the hood.
Honestly, this sort of programming (whether it's in quotes or not) will be unbelievably life changing when it works.

I can absolutely put into words what I want, but I cannot program it because of all the variables. When a computer can build the code for me based on my description... Holy cow.

if this doesn't work well with super high level languages, why would it work really well with LLMs?
I can have a conversation with LLM's. they can walk me through the troubleshooting without prior knowledge of programming languages.

That seems like a massive advantage.