Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages

https://openai.com/index/low-resource-programming-languages/

26•sumnole•1h ago

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anonymous908213•43m ago

> COBOL supports more than 40% of online banking systems, 80% of in-person credit card transactions and 95% of ATM transactions, while Fortran is used in weather forecasting and nuclear reactor safety analysis.

Can we not vibe code foundational bank infrastructure and nuclear reactor safety software? Pretty please?

bayindirh•40m ago

> Can we not vibe code foundational bank infrastructure and nucelear reactor safety software? Pretty please?

How can you power the "rogue" AI infrastructure and mistakenly funnel the funds needed for the operation otherwise?

Matrix needs energy, Matrix needs money.

VIBE CODE ALL THE TIHNGS! /s

liendolucas•30m ago

You forgot flight computers.

joshAg•6m ago

those are ada. Don't worry, they'll forget about ada until the defense contractors pay them to remember

mirror_dude•3m ago

oh man ada. I wrote a terrible Ada compiler in university.

waldrews•5m ago

Soon enough, it'll be 'Could we not entrust our safety critical systems to those emotional error prone humans? Pretty Please?'

onlyrealcuzzo•4m ago

It's a nuclear reactor, Michael. What's the worst that could happen? A meltdown?

etchalon•40m ago

It is such a ridiculously cool thing that we're reaching an era where the programming language you chose is as temporary a choice as the name of a variable.

gonzalohm•30m ago

How can that signal anything other than improper planning. You prefer a changing codebase over something that has evolved and is being tested over a long period of time?

etchalon•24m ago

New languages do in fact come out, and old languages get better, and old codebases are thing some people have to maintain.

retrac•18m ago

It can also signal very good planning. If a program is properly specified and all the business logic correct then implementation language is basically as afterthought.

I'm reminded of the software for the Gemini spacecraft. Does it still exist? We don't have any assembly or machine code. But much like today in the '60s the designers of the flight software, considered the assembly output to be an intermediate stage - a kind of temporary mapping from the real program. The real program was designed in "Math Flow 7" - a visual flowchart language for expressing logic. We still have the charts. Does that mean we still have the software? Is the set of charts the software?

awongh•13m ago

Yes, and, many many billions (trillions?) of dollars have been lost because the programming language couldn't be changed. Both things can be true.

vegnus•34m ago

I thought LLMs had been good at this for a while? I vibed a language out and the LLM could write in it pretty well. I even got Qwen 3.8 to write it (though it was pretty slow, it managed to get it done)

ch4s3•21m ago

Yeah GPT and Claude both write my language really well[1]. GLM and Kimi did OK as well, but I haven't tried Qwen.

[1] https://march-lang.org/

vatsachak•16m ago

Haskell got left out :(

Tanjreeve•6m ago

Haskell community will be overjoyed.

devin•5m ago

And Clojure. Perhaps these aren't considered low resource. I had good results in Clojure over a year ago.

bunderbunder•1m ago

I would not be surprised if a much larger volume of Clojure source code is in publicly-visible repositories. I’ve not met too many COBOL or Fortran hobbyists.

kragen•12m ago

It's kind of insane that one of OpenAI's internal test tasks is now "reimplement SQLite from scratch, preserving binary compatibility with existing database files".

dooglius•4m ago

By "low-resource" they seem to mean "not much training data". I wonder if the fix for this was generic generalization ability, or just making a lot of training data for the specific languages involved. This distinction matters a lot for the question of whether new programming languages can be developed without having LLMs be bad at them.

kristjansson•3m ago

I need to see SQLite implemented in PowerShell

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