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free_biptoday at 6:28 AM1 replyview on HN

What do you mean? I can run English on my computer. There are multiple apps out there that will let me type "delete all files starting with" hacker"" into the terminal and end up with the correct end result.

And before you say "that's indirect!", it genuinely does not matter how indirect the execution is or how many "translation layers" there are. Python for example goes through at least 3 translation layers, raw .py -> Python bytecode -> bytecode interpreter -> machine code. Adding one more automated translation layer does not suddenly make it "not code."


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charcircuittoday at 7:00 AM

I mean that the prompt is not like code. It's not a set of instructions that encodes what the computer will do. It includes instructions for how an AI can create the necessary code. Just because a specification is "translated" into code, that doesn't mean the input is necessarily code.

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