Comment by drodgers

> Prompts as Source Code

Another way to phrase this is LLM-as-compiler and Python (or whatever) as an intermediate compiler artefact.

Finally, a true 6th generation programming language!

I've considered building a toy of this with really aggressive modularisation of the output code (eg. python) and a query-based caching system so that each module of code output only changes when the relevant part of the prompt or upsteam modules change (the generated code would be committed to source control like a lockfile).

I think that (+ some sort of WASM encapsulated execution environment) would one of the best ways to write one off things like scripts which don't need to incrementally get better and more robust over time in the way that ordinary code does.