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Nobody knows how to build with AI yet

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Flatcircle ◴[] No.44616899[source]
My theory on AI is it's the next iteration of google search, a better more conversational, base layer over all the information that exists on the internet.

Of course some people will lose jobs just like what happened to several industries when search became ubiquitous. (newspapers, phone books, encyclopedias, travel agents)

But IMHO this isn't the existential crisis people think it is.

It's just a tool. Smart, clever people can do lots of cool stuff with tools.

But you still have to use it,

Search has just become Chat.

You used to have to search, now you chat and it does the searching, and more!

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ivanjermakov ◴[] No.44616976[source]
> Search has just become Chat

I think chat-like LLM interfacing is not the most efficient way. There has to be a smarter way.

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mmcconnell1618 ◴[] No.44620491[source]
English and other languages come with lots of ambiguity and assumptions. A significant benefit of programming languages is they have explicit rules for how they will be converted into a running program. An LLM can take many paths from the same starting prompt and deliver vastly different output.
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1. ip26 ◴[] No.44622110{3}[source]
I do agree… perhaps the thing to do is write fragments of the program, like the start and end, asking it to complete the middle. If you have precisely described how the output will be printed, for example, then you have essentially formally specified how the data should be organized…