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by brunoborges 41 days ago
I wonder if a model that does not know anything about a hypothetical programming language X, could write code once given said language X specification, APIs, and SDK tools and their documentation.

Meaning: the model has no idea, no access to examples, no previous codebase trained on, nothing, for language X. But it knows English, it knows how to program in general (training data does contain other programming languages), and everything we expect from LLMs today. It just doesn't know jack about language X.