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brooksttoday at 1:10 PM1 replyview on HN

Re: less common, I was just saying it doesn’t take millions off examples like PlanetUML.

> what can you trust

I wasn’t clear enough here — you’re responding to DSLs as an interface from non-deterministic LLMs to deterministic external systems.

What I meant was using DSLs as intermediate checkpoints in multi-LLM processing. If you just flow natural language through 5 LLM calls, the last one may be getting something very different from what it’s prompt is designed for.

But if you make the DSL a contract for handoff, results are much more stable.

Perfect and deterministic? No, of course not. Just an improvement and mitigation. But it’s served me well.


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codegladiatortoday at 1:18 PM

its served me okay.

> Perfect and deterministic? No, of course not. Just an improvement and mitigation.

exactly, not reliable, as the article tries to portray