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Re:Declarative Programming with AI/LLMs by alexpetros on Sunday September 15, 2024 @03:54PM (#41549860)
This is not declarative programming, it's codegen. Codegen has its place, but it does not have the most important property of declarative interfaces: that the implementation can improve without altering the code.

As others have pointed out, natural language is often insufficient to describe precisely the operations that you want. Declarative programming solves this with specialized syntax; AI codegen solves this by guessing at what you left out, and then giving you specific imperative code that may or may not do what you want. Personally, I'll be investing my time and resources into the former.

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Re:Declarative Programming with AI/LLMs by RodgerTheGreat on Sunday September 15, 2024 @04:08PM (#41549962)
On the other hand, if you use an LLM to generate code, all you have to do is change models, or adjust the model's temperature, or simply prompt the model a second time and you can expect the result to be teeming with a fresh batch of new flaws and surprising failure modes. An endless supply of debugging without the inconvenience of having to write a program to begin with!
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