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mrtksnyesterday at 8:54 PM2 repliesview on HN

What I wonder is, why do we still need code etc? Shouldn’t all code be just a promt? This way it becomes language and platform agnostic.


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yoz-yyesterday at 9:07 PM

How would that actually work? Eventually the specification for the CPU has to be clear. For now, that means machine code.

piskovtoday at 1:58 AM

Natural language is too vague, ambiguous, and inefficient.

That’s why we have _programming_ languages.

And once you specify everything you need, the “prompt” becomes a program.

Anything else is to lossy