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by alganet 357 days ago
Read his text more carefully:

> I can't just store my prompts in git and know that I'll get the same behavior each time

He's not on this idea of using english as source code. He explicitly acknowledges that it doesn't work that way (although he's vague in what _actually_ would replace this).

In summary, he's not talking about english as source code.

It _could_ be that someone else figures out how to use english as authoritative source, but that's not what he's talking about.

In that sense, he's talking about using LLMs as the IDE, tooling. It's not that different from using mutation testing (not something I would commit to the repo), and I stand by my original statement that this is not "unprecedent" as it seems.