Redmonk says Kotlin is the 17th most popular programming language ( https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-23 https://redmonk.com/sogrady/20

Redmonk says Kotlin is the 17th most popular programming language ( https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-23 https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-2... ). So can any of these LLMs and whatnot, even the ones supposedly geared toward programming do something like this: "Write a function in Kotlin that take a Long as a parameter, and sends back a List containing Long types. The parameter is a number, and the return is a list of prime numbers less than that number. All in one function." It seems it should be pretty simple, in fact I have written this program a number of times. If you think a list of prime numbers might take up too much memory, I have also done prompts only asking it to just give the largest prime under the input parameter. It is not a difficult task, and Kotlin is between Objective-C and Rust in popularity. Have any neural network programming tools been able to complete this? No. Some can, if the number input is 18L or the like. None have been able to handle 600851475143L (taken from the third Project Euler). If the program runs at all I get "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space". Even if I warn it to watch heap memory, it still is the same result. As I said, this is a prompt for a list, but even if I ask for only the largest prime number before 600851475143L, or any long such as that number, I have not seen any LLM or the like that can write that function. Especially ChatGPT 4, which I have tried it on extensively. I'm not saying LLMs will not get there, but this part of the third question on the Project Euler site, from a fairly popular language. It's a pretty simple question - a straightforward function to write. They can't do it yet. I see people worrying about AI being on the verge of taking programmers jobs. Until it can do something incredibly specified and simple as this, I am not worried at all.