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The exception is the rule. The reason why programming is hard is because most languages force you to use a hammer when you need a screw driver. LLMs are very g
by noosphr 6mo ago
The exception is the rule.
The reason why programming is hard is because most languages force you to use a hammer when you need a screw driver. LLMs are very good at misusing hammers and most people find them useful for that reason.
If you use a sane dsl instead the natural language description of a problem is always more complex and much longer than the equivalent description in a dsl. It's also usually wrong to boot.
This is what algebra used to look like before variables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27s_cattle_problem#Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes%27s_cattle_problem#...
I don't think you will find anyone who can do better than an LLM at one shotting the prose version of the problem. Both will of course be wrong.
But I also don't think you will find an LLM that can solve the problem faster than a human with Prolog when you have to use the prose description of the problem.
- stingraycharles 6mo agoUsing esoteric programming languages doesn’t suddenly make it true for the majority of development, which is web apps, CRUD stuff, some data science, etc.
- noosphr 6mo agoSQL and algebra are not esoteric languages.
- satvikpendem 6mo agoFor most devs, they are.
- satvikpendem 6mo agoWho is using APL and J these days? I guarantee 90+% of Claude users are developing CRUD web apps, or something similar. Your point about algebra is a non sequitur to what people are actually developing for these days.