Re:Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language
by TheMode on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:24PM
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> Right now, it’s not that reliable, of course, but eventually it will be. As everything else, it will evolve
What make you think that natural languages will ever become reliable/stable? It hasn't been for millennia
Re:Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language
by flangola7 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @12:30AM
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Then how have humans ever accomplished anything?
Re:Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language
by ekabod on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @02:38AM
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Can you explain your reasoning? I don't get it at all.
Re:Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language
by flangola7 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @03:43AM
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Humans communicate in natural language. When a CEO or project VP commands to have something they want produced, they're not using any kind of "reliable/stable" exact language. They may barely be able to even use a computer, much less write code. Nevertheless the final production product is still completed.
Re:Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language
by jaen on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:52AM
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When the end product is supposed to have any semblance of reliability and durability, even human beings do not communicate in natural language.
As an example:
- Science: Many non-natural languages and notations used for communication, math being the most obvious.
- Laws: Looks like natural language when you squint, but actually very rigid and un-natural.
Re:Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language
by flangola7 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:30PM
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What does that have to do with the CEO I mentioned? They're not writing math or legal documents, yet their wishes are still materialized. Whatever the intermediary processor utilizes is unimportant.
Re:Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language
by jaen on Thursday July 27, 2023 @06:43PM
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It's an example of large domains where natural language does not work well enough, as a counterpoint to the arbitrary, niche CEO example of a situation where it might work. It is responding to the entire thread, not just your comment.
Right now, it’s not that reliable, of course, but eventually it will be. As everything else, it will evolve
Don’t think it will be production-ready in the next 10 years or so, but eventually it will happen…
(I’ll save this reply to revisit in the future lol)