Wow, thanks for sharing this beautiful essay by a legend that captures the essence of the llm debate. That, the use of formal languages - although an evil (sin

Wow, thanks for sharing this beautiful essay by a legend that captures the essence of the llm debate. That, the use of formal languages - although an evil (since it is not a natural human language) is essential to avoid nonsense (ie hallucinations). While intuition/natural language is more imaginative, formalism (ie narrow interfaces) is a forcing function to make things work. According to Dijkstra, the use of natural languages regressed civilization by thousands of years (because of the nonsense and imprecision) ! So, expect thousands of years of LLM hell if we adopted it to replace our formal languages. Indeed, math and other symbolism/formalism is a crowning achievement of humans.