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by rswail 152 days ago
"The map is not the territory" applies to AI/LLMs even more so.

LLMs don't have a "mental model" of anything.

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But if the person writing the prompt is expressing their mental model at a higher level, and the code can be generated from that, the resulting artifact is, by Naur's theory, a more accurate representation of the actual program. That would be a big deal.

(Note the words "if" and "by Naur's theory".)