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markb139yesterday at 11:31 AM2 repliesview on HN

Programming languages, design languages and architecture are all inventions made to help humans write understandable source. LLMs don’t really need to do any of that. They can store very large trees of understanding and therefore implement any application in raw binary. Why bother with abstractions at all


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jeltzyesterday at 11:33 AM

LLMs for sure need those things. maybe not the same abstractions as humans do but without understabdable code an LLM will just fail to accomplish the task you ask it to do.

fliryesterday at 11:35 AM

It might be less ambitious and more practical to target bytecode.

But you effectively lose the human review component.

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