alt Hacker News> “it is quite improbable for LLMs to generate a working program, unless it is identical with one from its training set”
This is a fascinating result. In some sense it’s like APL is actually the most human programming language, despite being one of the most difficult for ordinarily trained human programmers to pick up.
>it’s like APL is actually the most human programming language
As an incompetent programmer who is far more comfortable with even the most experimental and abstract literature than any of the "easy" programming languages, I agree with this.
Edit: I was going to fix that sentence, but it is a good example of what thinking about programming languages does to my brain. The idea of a context free human language is alien, thinking in such absolute and concrete terms is weirdly abstract.