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Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English

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Re: Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English

#5
We built LLMs so that you can express your ideas in English and no longer need to code.

Also, English is really too verbose and imprecise for coding, so we developed a programming language you can use instead.

Now, this gives me a business idea: are you tired of using CodeSpeak? Just explain your idea to our product in English and we'll generate CodeSpeak for you.

Re: Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English

#7
This doesn't seem particularly formal. I still remain unconvinced reducing is really going to be valuable. Code obviously is as formal as it gets but as you trend away from that you quickly introduce problems that arise from lack of formality. I could see a world in which we're all just writing tests in the form of something like Gherkin though.

Re: Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English

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You can basically condense this entire "language" into a set of markdown rules and use it as a skill in your planning pipeline.

And whatever codespeak offers is like a weird VCS wrapper around this. I can already version and diff my skills, plans properly and following that my LLM generated features should be scoped properly and be worked on in their own branches. This imo will just give rise to a reason for people to make huge 8k-10k line changes in a commit.

Re: Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English

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So is it basically Markdown? The landing does not articulate, unfortunately, what the key contribution is.

I tried looking through some of the spec samples, and it was not clear what the "language" was or that there was any syntax. It just looks like a terse spec.
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