181 sats \ 6 replies \ @birdeye21 23 Jun 2023 \ on: What's the Future of Programming Languages in Your Opinion? tech
Natural language.
You think this will actually happen and replace tradtional programming? I don't see it escaping the "proofreading phase" anytime soon
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Not anytime soon but eventually.
This is the problem with discussing the future. Do we mean a year from now or ten or a hundred?
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I think the last hurdle including the need to proofread is a classical 80/20 problem. Due to the progress of the last 2 years people estimate the x-day to be in 10 years while I think it will be much longer.
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Recently I have been working with LLMs and it's really heavy on building natural language text queries to get it to do what you want. It's mainly about injecting blobs of text to make it change its mind.
Also what I find funny is that when you ask it to first think through the execution plan and you also append "please", then the results are much (much!) better.
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I think it's a good thing that natural language takes over too.
It's another basket of skills that we can offload from human understanding. Let the AI we create learn the technicals and get good at interpreting our own language.
It's the same way a calculator works. Takes care of the nitty gritty work for us based on our inputs. Calculators can easily perform complex tasks that we don't need to understand.
It makes coding, and thus creating, more efficient and accessible to everyone.
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Agree
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