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pshirshov ◴[03 Jul 25 20:41 UTC] No.44458996[source]▶

> Use boring technology: LLMs do much better with well-documented and well-understood dependencies than obscure, novel, or magical ones. Now is not the time to let Steve load in a Haskell-to-WebAssembly pipeline.

If we all go that way, there might be no new haskells and webassemblies in the future.

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1. emrehan ◴[03 Jul 25 21:13 UTC] No.44459244[source]▶

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LLMs can read documentations for a language and use it as well as human engineers.

"given a grammar manual for Kalamang, a language with fewer than 200 speakers worldwide, the model learns to translate English to Kalamang at a similar level to a person who learned from the same content"

Source: Gemini 1.5's paper from March 2024 https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...

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