Currents 095: Matt Welsh on the End of Programming
The Jim Rutt Show
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The Impedance Mismatch Between Using Languages and Writing Code
I quickly learned that you just talk to it in language, right? But it's the receiving part where having it in a structured form makes a big difference. In my program, I create a bunch of intermediate stuff and reuse it like I stick the character descriptions in whenever there's dialogue to be written. And they're two very different mindsets. There's an impedance mismatch in some sense between instructing a computer explicitly in code and effectively asking it politely to do something for you using a language model. Ultimately, we're going to get to a place where I think it'll almost all be in natural language but we're not there yet.
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