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blixt ◴[] No.44319312[source]
If we extrapolate these points about building tools for AI and letting the AI turn prompts into code I can’t help but reach the conclusion that future programming languages and their runtimes will be heavily influenced by the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs.

What would the code of an application look like if it was optimized to be efficiently used by LLMs and not humans?

* While LLMs do heavily tend towards expecting the same inputs/outputs as humans because of the training data I don’t think this would inhibit co-evolution of novel representations of software.

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1. thierrydamiba ◴[] No.44319413[source]
Is a world driven by the strengths and weaknesses of programming languages better than the one driven by the strengths and weaknesses of LLMs?
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2. ivape ◴[] No.44319887[source]
Better to think of it as a world driven by the strengths and weaknesses of people. Is the world better if more people can express themselves via software? Yes.

I don’t believe in coincidences. I don’t think the universe provided AI by accident. I believe it showed up just at the moment where the universe wants to make it clear - your little society of work and status and money can go straight to living hell. And that’s where it’s going, the developer was never supposed to be a rockstar, they were always meant to be creatives who do it because they like it. Fuck this job bullshit, those days are over. You will program the same way you play video games, it’s never to be work again (it’s simply too creative).

Will the universe make it so a bunch of 12 year olds dictate software in natural language in a Roblox like environment that rivals the horeshit society sold for billions just a decade ago? Yes, and thank god. It’s been a wild ride, thank you god for ending it (like he did with nuclear bombs after ww2, our little universe of war shrunk due to that).

Anyways, always pay attention to the little details, it’s never a coincidence. The universe doesn’t just sit there and watch our fiasco believe it or not, it gets involved.