[mistersquid]

> I can recognize images in one look.

> How about that 400 Line change that touches 7 files?

Karpathy discusses this discrepancy. In his estimation LLMs currently do not have a UI comparable to 1970s CLI. Today, LLMs output text and text does not leverage the human brain’s ability to ingest visually coded information, literally, at a glance.

Karpathy surmises UIs for LLMs are coming and I suspect he’s correct.

[variadix]

The thing required isn’t a GUI for LLMs, it’s a visual model of code that captures all the behavior and is a useful representation to a human. People have floated this idea before LLMs, but as far as I know there isn’t any real progress, probably because it isn’t feasible. There’s so much intricacy and detail in software (and getting it even slightly wrong can be catastrophic), any representation that can capture said detail isn’t going to be interpretable at a glance.

[skydhash]

There’s no visual model for code as code isn’t 2d. There’s 2 mechanism in the turing machine model: a state machine and a linear representation of code and data. The 2d representation of state machine has no significance and the linear aspect of code and data is hiding more dimensions. We invented more abstractions, but nothing that map to a visual representation.

[mistersquid]

> The thing required isn’t a GUI for LLMs, it’s a visual model of code that captures all the behavior and is a useful representation to a human.

The visual representation that would be useful to humans is what Karpathy means by “GUI for LLMs”.