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sarchertechyesterday at 10:35 PM0 repliesview on HN

The reason this works for compilers is because machine code is so low level that it’s possible for compiler authors to easily prove semantic equivalence between different sets of instructions.

That is not true for an English language prompt like “send and email with this specific subject and body”. There are so many implicit decisions that have to be made in that statement that will be different every time you regenerate the code.

English language specs will always have this ambiguity.