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> It can be a great way to communicate them It's usually not. Narrative is a famously flawed way to communicate or record the real world. It's great for gener
by marcosdumay 2y ago
> It can be a great way to communicate them
It's usually not. Narrative is a famously flawed way to communicate or record the real world.
It's great for generating engagement, though.
- taeric 2y agoI think fictional narratives that aim to capture inner monologue are famously flawed. I think narrative tours of things can be good. I'm not clear if "narrated tours" are a specific genre, sadly. :(
- sangnoir 2y ago> Narrative is a famously flawed way to communicate or record the real world. ...and yet with it's flaws, it's the most flexible in conveying meaning. A Ted Chiang interview was on the HN frontpage a few days ago, in it, he mentions that humans created multiple precise, unambiguous communication modes like equations used in mathematical papers and proofs. But those same papers are not 100% equations, the mathematicians have to fall back to flawed language to describe and provide context because those formal languages only capture a smaller range of human thought compared to natural language. This is not to say chat has the best ergonomics for development - it's not, but one has to remember that the tools are based on Large Language Models whose one-trick is manipulating language. Better ergonomics would likely come from models trained or fine-tuned on AST-tokens and diffs. They'd still need to modulate on language (understanding requirements, hints, variable names,and authoring comments, commits and/or PRs).