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We absolutely have digital machines with digital controls, they're called computers, and the controls are called programming languages etc. The reason people p
by topaz0 27d ago
We absolutely have digital machines with digital controls, they're called computers, and the controls are called programming languages etc.
The reason people prefer llms over programming is exactly because it lets them specify their program fuzzily, i.e. it lets them avoid going to the trouble of specifying enough detail to make it deterministic.
- fragmede 27d agoWe have to make the distinction between specification and execution. LLM programming is great because I can underspecify and the machine will infer the rest. Usually reasonably. People want fuzzy specification but deterministic outputs