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Programmers have known for decades that it's very hard for people to express their requirements in prose, that's one reason why natural-language user interfaces
by cratermoon 3y ago
Programmers have known for decades that it's very hard for people to express their requirements in prose, that's one reason why natural-language user interfaces have never lived up to the hype. Ambiguities stump computers. What does "List all employees in the company with a driving license" mean[1]?
There's a reason why Prompt Engineer is now a job title: companies need someone able to take someone's half-baked ideas and massage them into something coherent enough to elicit a useful response.
1 https://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9503016 https://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9503016
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoAmbiguities stump people all the time too. That's why I insist on calling people rather than texting if there's something important I'm attempting to discuss. I don't have the time or emotional energy to attempt to figure out someone's actual mood when discussing something via text.