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LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers
I’ve been going round and round in my mind about a particular discussion around LLMs: are they really similar to compilers? Are we headed toward a world where people don’t look at the underlying code for their programs? People have been making versions of this argument since Andrej Karpathy’s “English is the hottest new programming language.” Computer science has been advancing language design by building higher and higher level languages; this is the latest iteration: maybe we no longer need a separate language to express ourselves to machines; we can just use our native tongues (let alone English). My stance has been pretty rigid for some time: LLMs hallucinate, so they aren’t reliable building blocks.
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