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Yes. LLMs have helped me generate 1 novel discovery: that every top 10 programming language has a single creator (https://pldb.io/blog/aSingleCreator.html http
by breck 2y ago
Yes.
LLMs have helped me generate 1 novel discovery: that every top 10 programming language has a single creator (https://pldb.io/blog/aSingleCreator.html https://pldb.io/blog/aSingleCreator.html).
They also helped me generate this map yesterday (https://pldb.io/blog/whereInnovation.html https://pldb.io/blog/whereInnovation.html), which is the most comprehensive map of programming language creation and software innovation ever created.
- svieira 2y agoApache is credited with things it didn't initiate, but accepted after they were given up by another company (e. g. Cassandra)
- smokel 2y agoHow do you define single creator? The person who typed the first keystroke? It seems pretty silly to claim that Algol 60 has thirteen creators. Sure, Wikipedia lists that many names in some table, but that is not really a significant statistic, now is it? Java 22 probably has hundreds of people who contributed to it. Fun exercise though :)
- breck 2y ago> How do you define single creator? The creators define how many creators there were. It's all open source and anyone can fix any mistakes by updating one line (for example, here's the creators entry for Python: https://github.com/breck7/pldb/blob/b8ae74253733e4aa0fb57d26cb2abb503fa06ee3/concepts/python.scroll#L6 https://github.com/breck7/pldb/blob/b8ae74253733e4aa0fb57d26...). We generally don't have any disputes but there's the occasional error and always open to pull requests to fix those. But you do bring up a good point about contributors/maintainers. Adding that data is definitely on the priority list, but might be a 2025/2026 thing.