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WJWyesterday at 11:19 AM1 replyview on HN

It would be so much easier if we could precisely specify what we wanted, without all the double meanings, slang and general ambiguity that comes from using a natural language.

If only there was an entire class of well-studied languages which don't have any such ambiguity. They'd be perfect for programming LLMs! We could call them "programming languages" perhaps.


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fauigerzigerkyesterday at 12:34 PM

But what we want is a lot of ambiguity on the implementation side and some targeted ambiguity on the specification side where appropriate.