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svntyesterday at 6:50 PM4 repliesview on HN

A higher level of abstraction that doesn't require thinking? Did you mean to write thinking here?


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Animatsyesterday at 7:26 PM

Putting info into a spreadsheet is a higher level of abstraction that doesn't require thinking. There are many concrete representations like that. LLMs don't use them much. This is a lack.

Can you point a LLM at a body of code, and tell it "give me a concise UML chart of what this does"? I'm not advocating humans writing UML, but some representation like that may be useful to AIs. Except that they don't really do graphs very well. We may need a specification language intended to be read and written by AIs, readable by humans but seldom written by them. Going directly from natural language specifications to code causes the LLM blithering problem to generate too much code.

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simianwordsyesterday at 7:05 PM

Higher levels of abstraction require more complex levels of thinking. Why do you think it won't?

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ryeightsyesterday at 7:00 PM

Reads like great satire to me.

bogzzyesterday at 7:01 PM

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