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0 pointsPaulWaldman3y ago0 comments

If there was never a need for humans to understand code, are higher level languages really the most efficient?

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sebzim45003y ago· 1 in thread

Probably not but I doubt ASM is either. It's too low level, and it doesn't make sense for a LLM to have to do things like instruction selection which would can be done far better by existing tools (LLVM etc.).

Maybe it could just be an alternative syntax for an existing language which is more optimized for input/output to an LLM.

TchoBeer3y ago

I am thinking that the latter might eventually emerge, probably as part of a bigger tool chain e.g. langchain. Something like java bytecode which is low level and portable, but optimized for the ways that LLMs (perhaps interfacing with other tools) work.

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