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Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

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858 points cryptophreak | 3 comments | 04 Feb 25 16:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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croes ◴[04 Feb 25 16:22 UTC] No.42934439[source]▶
Natural language isn’t made to be precise that’s why we use a subset in programming languages.

So you either need lots of extra text to remove the ambiguity of natural language if you use AI or you need a special precise subset to communicate with AI and that’s just programming with extra steps.

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oxfordmale ◴[04 Feb 25 16:27 UTC] No.42934517[source]▶
Yes, let's devise a more precise way to give AI instructions. Let's call it pAIthon. This will allow powers that be, like Zuckerberg to save face and claim that AI has replaced mid-level developers and enable developers to rebrand themselves as pAIthon programmers.

Joking aside, this is likely where we will end up, just with a slightly higher programming interface, making developers more productive.

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1. dylan604 ◴[04 Feb 25 16:49 UTC] No.42934935[source]▶
man, pAIthon was just sitting right there for the taking
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3. oxfordmale ◴[04 Feb 25 19:36 UTC] No.42937458[source]▶
Thanks for pointing it out :-)