Learn Prolog Now

I am once again shilling the idea that someone should find a way to glue Prolog and LLMs together for better reasoning agents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=43948657

Thesis:

1. LLMs are bad at counting the number of r's in strawberry.

2. LLMs are good at writing code that counts letters in a string.

3. LLMs are bad at solving reasoning problems.

4. Prolog is good at solving reasoning problems.

5. ???

6. LLMs are good at writing prolog that solves reasoning problems.

Common replies:

1. The bitter lesson.

2. There are better solvers, ex. Z3.

3. Someone smart must have already tried and ruled it out.

Successful experiments:

1. https://quantumprolog.sgml.net/llm-demo/part1.html

Prolog doesn't look like javascript or python so:

1. web devs are scared of it.

2. not enough training data?

I do remember having to wrestle to get prolog to do what I wanted but I haven't written any in ~10 years.

It's been a while since I have done web dev, but web devs back then were certainly not scared of any language. Web devs are like the ultimate polyglots. Or at least they were. I was regularly bouncing around between a half dozen languages when I was doing pro web dev. It was web devs who popularized numerous different languages to begin with simply because delivering apps through a browser allowed us a wide variety of options.

I have the complete opposite view of web developers. :)