Comment by slopinthebag
15 hours ago
Someone with domain knowledge could also just write the code instead of trying to get the stochastic prediction machine to generate it. I thought the whole point was to allow people without said expertise to generate it. After all, that seems to be the promise.
> Someone with domain knowledge could also just write the code instead of trying to get the stochastic prediction machine to generate it.
Well, people with the domain knowledge exist, yet they have not yet written this driver... why not?
Because there is other code those experts want to write, and they don't have time to write it all... but what if they could just give a fairly straightforward prompt and have the LLM do it for them? And if it only took minor tweaks to the prompt to have it write drivers for all the myriad combinations of hardware and software? At that point, there might be enough time to write it all.
Just because people exist that can DO all the work doesn't mean we have enough person-hours to do ALL the work.
> Because there is other code those experts want to write, and they don't have time to write it all... but what if they could just give a fairly straightforward prompt and have the LLM do it for them?
Then pretty soon they wouldn't be the experts anymore?
Maybe? But you could make the same argument that programmers today aren't "experts" at computers because they don't know how to build CPUs.
There is no reason to believe you can't gain expertise while still using higher and higher level abstractions. Yes, you will lose some of that low level expertise, but you can still be an expert at the problem set itself.
Clearly there wasn't much appetite for someone to do that.
It will be like that at some point soon, just not now. Are you trying to make the point that because this technology is not yet perfect the fact that it can already do so much is unimpressive?
Will it happen before or after we get fusion energy? I heard that was coming soon too.