Programming Language
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Andreessen: Programming languages may not exist as a concept in 10 years
“Like I kind of think in 10 years, like I'm not sure, yeah, like I'm not sure there will even be a salient concept of a programming language in the way that we understand it today.”
Casado: Programmers will eventually stop worrying about frameworks and languages
“I just think hopefully we'll just stop worrying about frameworks altogether and maybe even languages, maybe even a, like a proto language evolves and we can just focus on, on, on logic and fundamental trade-offs.”
Casado: AI will not eliminate formal programming languages
“I just don't see a world when, where you get rid of formal programming languages just because they arose out of natural languages for a reason. Like we started with English and then we made programming languages so that we could formally describe stuff. And so…”
Truell: Future coding will use terse pseudocode instead of raw code
“And so a world, you know, kind of after, You know, after code I think it looks like a world where you have a representation of the logic of your software that does look more like English, right? You have kind of written down, you can imagine in doctrine form, …”
Taylor: Generating AI code in human-designed programming languages is a local maximum
“It feels like a local maximum in a really obvious way to me, which is you have a bunch of code written by people written in programming languages that were designed to make it easy for people to tell a computer what to do.”
Baker: Human language will become the dominant programming language within a year
“But I think next year, human language will be the dominant programming language.”
Agarwal: AI brings an inversion of control where machines learn human language
“Inversion of control is previously for machine to be able to go and do the work. We had to go and write the, ah, language in which machine can understand it, which is like the programming languages that we had to go and write. That's the only way that machine …”
Mensch: LLMs function as programming languages, not standalone products
“If you look at what the LLM does, it's not really different from a programming language. It's actually used very much as a programming language by the application makers. There's a strong confusion made between what we call a model and what we call an applicat…”
Evans: Prompt engineering acts as a logical programming language
“Well, it's a programming language. You are feeding the statistical engine logical steps. You are saying double plus this, minus that, Conclude this, de-emphasize that, emphasize this, and you've ended up with a whole paragraph of instructions, which is actuall…”
Zaveri: Value in AI comes from vertical applications, not infrastructure
“I look at it from a vertical application standpoint, not from just Hey, we want to have the best models, the best sort of, you know, technology, and we're just going to sell enabling technology, you know. No one buys programming languages. And in the same way,…”