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applicativetoday at 5:19 AM2 repliesview on HN

Does this desideratum make any sense? The whole point is that you write to it in English or Urdu, and it writes the specified code. If you cut off everything but the code writing, you cut off everything.


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regularfrytoday at 9:12 AM

If you're literally using it as code autocomplete that's not functionally true. But it's still neither well specified nor a good idea.

bonessstoday at 8:15 AM

Domain modelling as well: we have clear programming concepts, but the kind of autocomplete that can autocomplete a customer sales process needs to be able to refer/leverage ontological connections on words like ‘bass’, ‘season’, ‘rebate’, and ‘jamboree’.

Intuitively it feels like focused models should be better models, but human programmers are ‘better’ knowing programming alongside general stuff. We’re not reduced by reading economics or Tolkien, removing such knowledge would be premature optimization.

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