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romaniv | 8 months ago

The title should be "DSLs pose an interesting problem for LLM users".

It is significant that LLMs in coding are being promoted based on a set of promises (and assumptions) that are getting instantly and completely reversed the moment the technology gets an iota of social adoption in some space.

"Everyone can code now!" -> "Everyone must learn a highly specialized set of techniques to prompt, test generated code, etc."

"LLMs are smart and can effortlessly interface with pre-existing technologies" -> "You must adopt these agent protocols, now"

"LLMs are great at 0-shot learning" -> "I will not use this language/library/version of tool, because my model isn't trained on its examples"

"LLMs effortlessly understand existing code" -> "You must change your code specifically to be understood by LLMs"

This is getting rather ridiculous.

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swyx|8 months ago

we had this with types too. fanaticism isn't unique to llms