Set rules on what’s valid, which most languages already do; omit generation of known code; generate everything else
The computer does the work, programmers don’t have to think it up.
A typed language example to explain; generate valid func sigs
func f(int1, int2) return int{}
If that’s our only func sig in our starting set then it makes it obvious
Well relative to our tiny starter set func f(int1, int2, int3) return int{} is novel
This Redis post is about fixing a prior decision of a random programmer. A linguistics decision.
That’s why LLMs seem worse than programmers because we make linguistics decisions that fit social idioms.
If we just want to generate all the never before seen in this model code we don’t need a programmer. If we need to abide laws of a flexible language nature, that’s what a programmer is for; compose not just code by compliance with ground truth.
That antirez is good at Redis is a bias since he has context unseen by the LLM. Curious how well antirez would do with an entirely machine generated Redis-clone that was merely guided by experts. Would his intuition for Redis’ implementation be useful to a completely unknown implementation?
He’d make a lot of newb errors and need mentorship, I’m guessing.
