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We've gone full circle: efficient meta languages back to inefficient and ambivalent natural language.
by RamblingCTO 3y ago
We've gone full circle: efficient meta languages back to inefficient and ambivalent natural language.
- linuxdude314 3y agoAgreed; this is somewhat useful for beginners but incredibly silly for professionals.
- lemming 3y agoI'm endlessly amused by the fact that among the first applications of LLMs were tools to summarise emails, accompanied by tools to write your emails based on a short description of what you want to say. So soon we'll effectively be communicating by text message, with the LLMs acting as a sort of anti-compression in between. My brother lives in Japan, and he recently had to write a lot of emails to the company renovating his apartment. He said that ChatGPT was a lifesaver there since at least 75% of semi-formal (i.e. between customer and company) Japanese emails is formality and filler. He just skipped all of that and ChatGPT wrote it for him.
- RamblingCTO 3y agoThat's actually a very sensible use case!
- shishirpatil 3y agoI think the use cases are where you roughly remember the commands but not the full command. Like rather than you looking up a man page you could potentially use this. An expert in one field may not be in another, so they might also find this useful!