Comment by pjmlp

Comment by pjmlp 8 months ago

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I belive asking the favorite LLM to generate an executable will be the future, just like high level languages drove Assembly development into a niche.

Yes it isn't here today, just like it took several decades for optimizing compiler backends to do a very good job.

In fact one of the reasons why Matt Goldbolt created Compiler Explorer was to have a way to settle arguments he was having in the games industry.

Koshkin 8 months ago

> LLM to generate an executable

... and the job of a programmer will be to explain, in as precise terms as possible, what they need the executable to do. (Reminds me of the idea of programming based on a natural language.)

  • pjmlp 8 months ago

    Grace Hopper would find the future of programming so ironic.

  • polski-g 8 months ago

    Correct.

    We migrated from Asm to C. And C to C++, then to Java. And then Java to Python.

    And now we write code in English.

    I haven't written much code in many months.