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>> what if we treated prompts as the actual source code? You would not do this because: unlike programming languages, natural languages are ambiguous and thus
by rectang 1y ago
>> what if we treated prompts as the actual source code?
You would not do this because: unlike programming languages, natural languages are ambiguous and thus inadequate to fully specify software.
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- a012 1y agoPrompts are like story on the board, and like engineers, depends on the understanding of the model the generated source code can vary. Saying the prompts could be the actual code is so wrong and dangerous thought
- squillion 1y agoExactly! > this assumes models can achieve strict prompt adherence What does strict adherence to an ambiguous prompt even mean? It’s like those people asking Babbage if his machine would give the right answer when given the wrong figures. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a proposition.