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> We are going from the era of manual, line-by-line mental model transcription to one where software engineers can focus on data structures, software architectu
by abathologist 19d ago
> We are going from the era of manual, line-by-line mental model transcription to one where software engineers can focus on data structures, software architecture and algorithms.
This is what declarative programming gives us, not what LLM-based generation offers.
> I love being able to quickly bring out the program that is already running in my head without having to worry about the grind of typing it into a format that the compiler understands.
Using natural instead of a formal language to get probabilistic results based on token fields is not bypassing arbitrary constraints of the compiler, it is dereliction of the responsibility to know and articulate precisely what you are specifying.