Comment by Animats

I tried some LLMs about six months ago, and got a halfway decent translation between Linden Scripting Language and Lua. I didn't expect that to work at all, but it did, despite very different syntax. The parent article says that if you haven't tried this in six months, it's time to try again. It looks like it's going to be useful for game geometry wrangling, at least.

LLMs seem to be good at finding obscure library functions from a description of the function needed, something where where keyword searches aren't too helpful. Previously, searching Stack Overflow helped, but nobody is posting there any more. Good reference manuals are almost historical artifacts now.