alt Hacker NewsExactly! I wouldn’t be surprised if some day in the distant future, that’s where this all goes. Coding languages may in fact be on their way to being dead. You can imagine a world where, regardless the platform, the lowest level instruction format is output.
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I can see a future generation of models. For now, LLM's train on human artifacts and they handle Python/TS well because of the overwhelming amount of code they've seen, combined with the semantic labels high level languages use that they rely on for reasoning.
Also, consider token efficiency. Imagine how many tokens would be torched just translating an import statement of a popular library to its binary equivalent, let alone a big complex program
I would not be surprised if we ended up with binaries and Lean proofs.
How would we train those LLMs? Feed them binary executables along with their business requirement docs? Is the corpus of training data large enough to be effective? What happens when a new CPU architecture is developed? Where would the training data come from for the new machine code?