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OJFord ◴[] No.44324130[source]
I'm not sure about the 1.0/2.0/3.0 classification, but it did lead me to think about LLMs as a programming paradigm: we've had imperative & declarative, procedural & functional languages, maybe we'll come to view deterministic vs. probabilistic (LLMs) similarly.

    def __main__:
        You are a calculator. Given an input expression, you compute the result and print it to stdout, exiting 0.
        Should you be unable to do this, you print an explanation to stderr and exit 1.
(and then, perhaps, a bunch of 'DO NOT express amusement when the result is 5318008', etc.)
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ai-christianson ◴[] No.44324398[source]
Why does this remind me of COBOL.
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1. wiz21c ◴[] No.44328112[source]
'cos COBOL was designed to be human readable (writable ?).