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It's just a higher level abstraction, subject to leaks as with all abstractions. How many professional programmers don't have assemblers/compilers/interpreters
by maxwell 1y ago
It's just a higher level abstraction, subject to leaks as with all abstractions.
How many professional programmers don't have assemblers/compilers/interpreters "calling the shots" on arbitrary implementation details outside the problem domain?
- LorenPechtel 1y agoBut we trust those tools to do the job correctly. The compiler has considerable latitude in messing with the details so long as the result is guaranteed to match what was ordered--when we find any deviation from that even in an edge case we consider it a bug (Borland Pascal debugger, I'm looking at you. I wasted a *lot* of time on the fact that in single step mode you peacefully "execute" an invalid segment register load!) LLMs lack this guarantee.
- maxwell 1y agoWe trust those tools to do the job correctly now. https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/when-compilers-were-the--ai--that-scared-programmers https://vivekhaldar.com/articles/when-compilers-were-the--ai...