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LLMs Are Transpilers

https://alloc.dev/2025/10/10/llms_are_transpilers
2•Retro_Dev•2h ago

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icsa•2h ago
"English as a programming language" has neither well-defined syntax nor well-defined semantics.

There should be no expectation of a "correct" translation to any programming language.

N.B. Formal languages for specifying requirements and specifications have been in existence for decades and are rarely used.

From what I've observed, people creating software are reluctant to or incapable of producing [natural language] requirements and specifications that are rigorous & precise enough to be translated into correctly working software.

Retro_Dev•1h ago
In the theoretical world where a subset of English could be formalized and proven and compiled, the complexity of the language would reduce my willingness to use it. I find that the draw of AI comes from it's "simplicity," and removing that (in favor of correct programs) would be pointless - because such a compiler would surely take forever to compile "English" code, and would not be too different from current high level languages, imo.

DC Comics declares it will never use generative AI

https://www.avclub.com/dc-comics-wont-use-generative-ai
1•geox•1m ago•0 comments

Why MNAV Rainbow Bands Match Historical Cycles Better

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The invention of microbiology

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What Jihad al-Shamie's three wives tell us about terror

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Pegatron Revenue Declines 12.3%

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Bidirectional type checking step by step (in Ruby)

https://luizpvas.github.io/11_bidirectional_type_checking.html
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Using Run-Kit to Run Python, R, and JavaScript Inside Rust – 26 Languages

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1•esubaalew•6m ago•1 comments

What billionaire Peter Thiel said in his private 'Antichrist lectures'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/10/10/peter-thiel-antichrist-lectures-leaked/
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1•empressplay•11m ago•0 comments

Apple nears deal to acquire talent, tech from AI startup Prompt AI

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1•coloneltcb•12m ago•0 comments

The Porcelain to Come

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1•stackdiver•13m ago•0 comments

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A million-solar-mass object detected at cosmological distance

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DEF CON 33 videos now available

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Make a procedurally generated planet

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3•c420•25m ago•0 comments

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Printing Petscii Faster

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1•ibobev•27m ago•0 comments

"It was just a neural net tripping balls, bro"

https://twitter.com/bendiken/status/1976769934144553019
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Why LLMs cannot reach GenAI, but why it looked like they could

https://haversine.substack.com/p/fools-gold
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Global Crossing Is Reborn

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A Expensive Way to Reduce Crime

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2•JumpCrisscross•38m ago•0 comments

Police Officers per 1k People

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3•JumpCrisscross•38m ago•0 comments

DC National Guard deployment to cost $200M

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5•JumpCrisscross•39m ago•0 comments