Re:Ask HN: Are LLMs the new compilers?
by techpineapple on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @02:10PM
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I do wonder if there will be an evolution in language design, but I also think english is probably too easily fungible. Bi-weekly can mean both twice per week and once every two weeks. Which one should "bi-weekly" compile to. Maybe a centralized config? Is that config in plain english, or structured. and then probably fuggedabout it if you have both native and non-native speakers of english on the same team? Or I imagine in some companies non-english speakers are writing code.
If your language is non-deterministic it would really suck if your application compiled one way on Tuesday, and another way the next Tuesday.
If your language is non-deterministic it would really suck if your application compiled one way on Tuesday, and another way the next Tuesday.