> We're witnessing a fundamental shift where the interface to computing is changing from formal syntax to natural language.
People have said this every year since the 1950's.
No, it is not happening. LLMs won't help.
Writing code is easy, it's understanding the problem domain is hard. LLMs won't help you understand the problem domain in a formal manner. (In fact they might make it even more difficult.)
andrepd
Exactly. It's the uncomfortable truths well xkcd.
simplify
Let's be real, people have said similar things about AI too. It was all fluff, until it wasn't.
otabdeveloper4OP
AI still doesn't have a valid and sustainable business use case.
People are just assuming that the hallucination and bullshitting issues will just go away with future magic releases, but they won't.
People have said this every year since the 1950's.
No, it is not happening. LLMs won't help.
Writing code is easy, it's understanding the problem domain is hard. LLMs won't help you understand the problem domain in a formal manner. (In fact they might make it even more difficult.)