Comment by codethief
16 hours ago
Sounds like transpiling Typescript to JavaScript, except that you translate to a vastly different language, thereby making you, the programmer, largely unable to reason about the performance characteristics of your code ("Can the transpiler optimize this Python loop or nah?"), and you also throw in the indeterminism of LLMs. Oooof, I'm not sure I'd want that.
When you're using Python the type of performance characteristics you're usually thinking of are "can i call an external library that runs this on the GPU" or "is this log(n) or n^2 complexity?" and such language translations shouldn't change those parts.
As in the language is regularly benchmarked at 10-100x slower than other languages. It's not a languages for caring about subtle performance characteristics outside "am i calling the external library correctly or not?" (as in this article) or "is this algorithm exponential time?".