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LLM Inevitabilism

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1613 points SwoopsFromAbove | 2 comments | 15 Jul 25 04:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.69s | source
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Workaccount2 ◴[15 Jul 25 12:54 UTC] No.44570646[source]▶
People like communicating in natural language.

LLMs are the first step in the movement away from the "early days" of computing where you needed to learn the logic based language and interface of computers to interact with them.

That is where the inevitabilism comes from. No one* wants to learn how to use a computer, they want it to be another entity that they can just talk to.

*I'm rounding off the <5% who deeply love computers.

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1. pera ◴[15 Jul 25 15:22 UTC] No.44572127[source]▶
> Ordinary language is totally unsuited for expressing what physics really asserts, since the words of everyday life are not sufficiently abstract. Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

- Bertrand Russell, The Scientific Outlook (1931)

There is a reason we don't use natural language for mathematics anymore: It's overly verbose and extremely imprecise.

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2. calvinmorrison ◴[15 Jul 25 16:47 UTC] No.44573171[source]▶
which is why every NoCode platform, or iPaas or whatever always falls back to implementing DSLs. programming languages are the most succinct deterministic way to instruct a computer, or even a person to do something.