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Comment by merlindru

10 days ago

I don't think most JavaScript devs know how to read C code, let alone assembly, so I think the comparison is apt. Is it not?

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wtetzner  10 days ago

The JavaScript developers are checking in JavaScript code that they ostensibly understand. That is not the same as prompting an LLM to generate Zig that they don't understand, and expecting someone to merge it.

  • merlindru  10 days ago

    ah, i see what you're saying. fair point! though the argument was that LLMs essentially are a yet higher level programming language (or, rather, let you write in a higher level language).

    • wtetzner  9 days ago

      They do let you write in a higher-level language, but it's not really analogous to a higher-level programming language. The ambiguity and lack of determinism makes prompting fundamentally different from using a high level programming language.