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0 pointsfauigerzigerk1mo ago0 comments

It absolutely should be Turing complete. I want to formally specify some constraints/invariants that any generated code has to meet, like very high level test cases.

It doesn't have to be a new language. I'm sure some existing language can be used to create a DSL that serves this purpose.

It can obviously never be complete. Some parts of the spec will always have to be natural language if we want to make the best use of LLMs.

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WJW1mo ago· 2 in thread

Maybe we can have Large Logic Models instead, and they could have formalized keywords with rigid meanings? Like IF, WHILE and FOREACH maybe. Or even ASYNC if you want to be modern about it.

fauigerzigerkOP1mo ago

I do think that AI models should get better at logic. But if code generators are supposed to be tools, we have to tell them what to do. I'm not sure what combination of languages is best for that purpose.

WJW1mo ago

It would be so much easier if we could precisely specify what we wanted, without all the double meanings, slang and general ambiguity that comes from using a natural language.

If only there was an entire class of well-studied languages which don't have any such ambiguity. They'd be perfect for programming LLMs! We could call them "programming languages" perhaps.

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