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If we’re going to have LLMs write the code, why not something more performant? Like pages and pages of Java maybe?

this is pretty performant for short scripts if you measure time "from code to rust" which can be as low as 1us.

Of course it's slow for complex numerical calculations, but that's the primary usecase.

I think the consensus is that LLMs are very good at writing python and ts/js, generally not quite as good at writing other languages, at least in one shot. So there's an advantage to using python/js/ts.

Seems like we should fix the LLMs instead of bending over backwards no?

They’re good at it because they’ve learned from the existing mountains of python and javascript.

I think the next big breakthrough will be cost effective model specialization, maybe through modular models. The monolithic nature of today’s models is a major weakness.

Plenty of Java in the training data too.

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