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Cyberdogyesterday at 12:58 AM2 repliesview on HN

The obvious problem with any new AI-centric programming language (I think this is the third I’ve seen at this point) is that any LLM you try to use with it will be starting from zero - it has nothing to copy from and very little documentation available to find on its own, if it’s even capable of doing web searches. Java or C++ or whatever may be “worse” by some standards for LLMs (or humans) to work with, but all LLMs in common use have already been trained on decades of existing code which it can crib from.


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jbwintersyesterday at 3:03 AM

This is definitely true. The language is intentionally small enough to fit into a single SKILL.md file, for what it's worth:

https://github.com/jbwinters/jacquard-lang/blob/main/docs/SK...

Agents I've tested with have had been able to pick up the language from that, at least to the extent that I've been able to test so far.

ch4s3yesterday at 3:31 AM

> very little documentation available to find on its own

Building something like haskel's hoogle seems like a smart approach to this problem.