alt Hacker NewsDid you read past the first sentence? The kind of information that a piece of code transmits is fundamentally different from that which is transmitted by a sentence or a song.
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rustystump • today at 5:33 PM
So code that is written which plays music, yes people do live code music, doesnt count?
An elegant algorithm or intentionally inelegant one do not speak or communicate ideas? Please, keep hairsplitting.
Sir. You’re wrong and wrong on the internet. Two capital offenses. For shame.
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Yes, though I would take it in a different direction and say that LLMs are better at putting actual ideas into code. They've never gotten real feedback on how their literary metaphor feels, but they have gotten very direct feedback on whether code runs at all, and slightly more indirect feeds on whether it runs as part of the larger system.