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Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans

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Re: Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans

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Post by gnanagurusrgs »

Creator here. This started as a dumb question while using Claude Code: "Why is Claude writing TypeScript I'm supposed to read?"

40% of code is now machine-written. That number's only going up. So I spent some weekends asking: what would an intermediate language look like if we stopped pretending humans are the authors?

NERD is the experiment.

Bootstrap compiler works, compiles to native via LLVM. It's rough, probably wrong in interesting ways, but it runs. Could be a terrible idea. Could be onto something. Either way, it was a fun rabbit hole.

Contributors welcome if this seems interesting to you - early stage, lots to figure out: https://github.com/Nerd-Lang/nerd-lang-core

Happy to chat about design decisions or argue about whether this makes any sense at all.

Re: Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans

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Post by itsthecourier »

tokens are tokens, shorter or larger, they are tokens

in that sense I don't see how this is more succinct than phyton

it is more than typescript and c#, of course, but we need to compete with the laconic languages

in that sense you will end up with Cisc vs Risc dilemma from the cpu wars. you will find the ability to compress even more is adding new tokens to compress repetitive tasks like sha256 being a single token. I feel that's a way to compress even more

Re: Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans

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Post by jychang »

munchler wrote: post #4

By this logic, shouldn’t you be prompting an LLM to design the language and write the compiler itself?

Easy to produce != easy to consume, and vice versa

Optimizing a language for LLM consumption and generation (probably) doesn't mean you want a LLM designing it.

Re: Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans

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Post by wmoxam »

gnanagurusrgs wrote: post #2

Creator here. This started as a dumb question while using Claude Code: "Why is Claude writing TypeScript I'm supposed to read?" 40% of code is now machine-written. That number's only going up. So I spent some weekends asking: what would an intermediate language look like if we stopped pretending humans are the authors? NERD is the experiment. Bootstrap compiler works, compiles to native via LLVM. It's rough, probably…

> 40% of code is now machine-written

How did you arrive at that number?

Re: Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans

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Post by kevml »

gnanagurusrgs wrote: post #2

Creator here. This started as a dumb question while using Claude Code: "Why is Claude writing TypeScript I'm supposed to read?" 40% of code is now machine-written. That number's only going up. So I spent some weekends asking: what would an intermediate language look like if we stopped pretending humans are the authors? NERD is the experiment. Bootstrap compiler works, compiles to native via LLVM. It's rough, probably…

It’s an interesting thought experiment! My first questions boil down to the security and auditability of the code. How easy is it for a human to comprehend the code?
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