Comment by motorest
9 months ago
> If you define a grammar for a new programming language and feed it to an LLM and give it NO EXAMPLES can it write code in your language?
Neither does your average human. What's your point?
9 months ago
> If you define a grammar for a new programming language and feed it to an LLM and give it NO EXAMPLES can it write code in your language?
Neither does your average human. What's your point?
That's the bar now? Some tech is great if the average human is worse at it?
There are lots of bars depending on context.
But being better than an average human is usually one of the higher bars.
Well it depends. For example, calculators have been around for a while and a calculator that only performs better than the average human is not very useful. Sorting algorithms are another example.
Autocomplete/intellisense in an IDE is probably the most salient example. An autocomplete that performs _as well_ as the average programmer is, well, totally useless.
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