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by mountainriver 12 days ago
With writing code in english now, why have it use a slow weak language?

ML still has a depth of libraries that can't be replicated easily but ML work is decreasing by the day with LLMs.

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Because the English to code translation step is fallible
Which is precisely a reason for not using Python, despite LLMs being good at it.
Why is that?
> With writing code in english now, why have it use a slow weak language?

Because the feedback loop of writing few lines of Python inside Jupyter cell is much shorter than with your currently favorite AI tool. It costs less too.

Implementing whole features is? What are we talking about?