@fasterandworse @dgerard I am pretty sure I have seen programming the computer in plain English used as a selling point for various products since the 1970s at least
the best part is that most of these products are ex-products
@fasterandworse @dgerard I mean, it’s like catnip for the people who control how the company’s money is spent
For absurd, I think one would want the LLM’s configuration language to be more like INTERCAL; but this may also be more explicit about how your instructions are merely suggestions to a black box full of weights and pulleys and with some randomness added to make it less predictable/repetitive
@hairyvisionary @fasterandworse @dgerard
That was explicitly a goal of COBOL, and (guessing here) probably Commercial Translator as well.