Just yesterday I was thinking to myself "I wonder how long it will be until we start generating prompts using code and then we're just writing code again"
func = llm('function that sorts two input argument lists')
Worth being creative with ideas like this at least.
> It may be illuminating to try to imagine what would have happened if, right from the start our native tongue would have been the only vehicle for the input into and the output from our information processing equipment. My considered guess is that history would, in a sense, have repeated itself, and that computer science would consist mainly of the indeed black art how to bootstrap from there to a sufficiently well-defined formal system.
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I’m joking of course but I do think LLM’s will become part of the programming language lexer of some kind. If not already being looked into.
I think once we get past "make the LLM generate #$%!#@ JSON" we will start seeing a lot more of this, since we will then be able to constrain the code-paths that are followed.
I could absolutely see LLM-powered operators being introduced at some point, that we use just like an if statement.
Imagine "if(input like LLM(greeting))" or while(LLM(input) like "interested")
essentially distilling unstructured inputs into a canonical form to be used in control flows:
Switch(LLM(input)): - case request - case question - case query
If it's too dark call 'HAL.lights_on' with the current room as a parameter.
"Tell me how old Napoleon would be today." "Today Napoleon, assuming he is alive, would be calc(today - data.Napoleon.birthdate).year"