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LLMs Bring New Nature of Abstraction

A long-form article entitled: "LLMs bring new nature of abstraction"

LLMs are making that degree of impact, but with the distinction that it isn't just raising the level of abstraction, but also forcing us to consider what it means to program with non-deterministic tools. My first professional programming was in Fortran IV, where “IF” statements didn't have an “ELSE” clause, and I had to remember to name my integer variables so they started with the letters “I” through “N”. Now I hardly ever write loops, I instinctively pass functions as data - but I'm still talking to the machine in a similar way than I did all those days ago on the Dorset moors with Fortran.

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