Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ...
by teaearlgraycold on Sunday December 04, 2022 @12:00PM
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Confirmation bias - people want it to be a silver bullet so that they can make a blog post about how ChatGPT is amazing.
Re:Building an interpreter for my programming language with ...
by nobody5050 on Sunday December 04, 2022 @01:50PM
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Exactly. As the OP of the blog, the amount of handholding I had to do for it to understand the syntax of an extremely tiny language was a lot. On the other hand, I’ve messed around with codex and other models before, and something about explaining in normal English, as though I was having a conversation rather than just listing some commands made it much easier. I’m excited not because of what exists right now, but because this shows so much promise even just 1 or 2 papers down the line :D
When people say they implement complex tasks with ChatGPT, I have to assume that it's a highly iterative process and/or that they are doing part of the design/problem solving themselves because even for a simple task I could not rely only on the bot's reasoning. (Maybe it gets things right in one shot sometimes - but my sense is that "on average" that's not the case at all.)
All that said - the progress here is really impressive, and I'm still having a hard time wrapping my head around what this can mean for the future.