[bloppe]

Even LLMs have not realized the dream of a natural language computer interface. Everyone who uses them significantly has to read up on prompt engineering and add little things like "explain your steps" or "describe it like I'm 5" or other oddly specific sequences of characters to get the results they want. That's not natural language. It's a DSL.

[rbanffy]

Worse. It’s a DSL without a formal specification. You are writing prompts blindly in hopes they trigger the desired behaviour from the LLM.

A bit like writing enchantments to force demons to do your bidding.

[namaria]

Worse. You're just providing tokens which will get values you don't know or can predict attached to them and trying to influence values which will produce tokens based on rules you don't know, which change all the time for reasons you also don't know. Hopefully the tokens you get are the ones you're hoping for, and if you don't have complete mastery of the subject you won't know if they are the tokens you need or can even trust their meaning.

[anthk]

Z Machine text adventures are far more predictable...

[ykonstant]

>A bit like writing enchantments to force demons to do your bidding.

But without the cool chanting and poetic language; just like cyberpunk was realized without the vivid imagery and neon lights :(

[rbanffy]

> just like cyberpunk was realized without the vivid imagery and neon lights :(

The 21st century never ceases to disappoint. It’s a cheap, low budget and dystopian version of what we imagined.

[NoGravitas]

To be fair, what we imagined was dystopian, too. It's just that some people with a lot of ambition and not much media literacy didn't realize it was dystopian, and set about to build that future.

[rbanffy]

I am from the Thunderbirds generation. It wasn't a perfect 21st century, but at least it was cool. And the sound track was excellent.

[zknow]

could have been high budget dystopian at least!

[TheOtherHobbes]

The budget is extremely high, but very unevenly distributed.