James BennettNew blog post: I got tired of having repetitive arguments explaining why I think it’s OK to be skeptical of LLMs for coding, so I wrote six and a half thousand words on the topic that I will be referring people to from now on.
Mateusz 🏳️🌈@ubernostrum Very interesting and insightful 👏 Thanks for not overusing the term "AI" (I tend to avoid it too)
I find Dijkstra's note, linked near the end, particularly interesting. It's something that I had on mind for quite some time that formality and precision of programming languages is actually their advantage over natural languages. It seems, that someone has already made that observation 50 years ago…
In addition to that, I'd like to point out that LLMs are stochastic models, as opposed to deterministic programming languages compilers. That's IMHO another one advantage of programming over prompting, underestimated by "AI" evangelists.