alt Hacker NewsMaybe to get a real breakthrough we have to make programming languages / tools better suited for LLM strengths not fuss so much about making it write code we like. What we need is correct code not nice looking code.
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> programming languages / tools better suited for LLM strengths
The bitter lesson is that the best languages / tools are the ones for which the most quality training data exists, and that's pretty much necessarily the same languages / tools most commonly used by humans.
> Correct code not nice looking code
"Nice looking" is subjective, but simple, clear, readable code is just as important as ever for projects to be long-term successful. Arguably even more so. The aphorism about code being read much more often than it's written applies to LLMs "reading" code as well. They can go over the complexity cliff very fast. Just look at OpenClaw.
Lean might be a step in that direction.
Yes yes
Let it write a black box no human understands. Give the means of production away.
If you can’t validate the code, you can’t tell if it’s correct.