alt Hacker NewsI'm not so sure about that in the generic sense.
This sentence from the article really stuck out to me.
> and you write the rule down so clearly that nobody (human or otherwise) has to guess again.
Writing rules, or steps, unambiguously in a high level language and having those statements translated to lower level languages, that ultimately get executed by a machine, is what compilers do.
The commands you gave were not unambiguous at all and although an LLM would produce a result, the result would definitely be nonsense.
"make me a budget, here is 6 months of credit card receipts"
For example, a valid budget requires some knowledge of expected income...
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> Writing rules, or steps, unambiguously in a high level language and having those statements translated to lower level languages, that ultimately get executed by a machine, is what compilers do.
And it definitely is not what LLMs do, even if you pepper your rules with “NEVER, ever deviate from these rules”.
>For example, a valid budget requires some knowledge of expected income...
i forgot my golden rule of never giving examples or using analogies while on HN because people hyper focus on nitpicking the specifics of the example/analogy rather than the overall point being made.
amend my example to "make me a budget, here is 6 months of credit card receipts, and i make somewhere around $60k per year".