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Re:Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language by TheMode on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @09:24PM (#36872013)
> 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 (#36873107)
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 (#36873849)
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 (#36874287)
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 (#36877719)
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 (#36881496)
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 (#36901110)
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.
Re:Show HN: Marsha – An LLM-Based Programming Language by TheMode on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:39PM (#36887774)
How do you plan to update such natural language code? Words change meaning. This is what I meant by stable