Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans

I suspect this is wrong. If you are correct, that implies to me that LLMs are not intelligent and just are exceptionally well tuned to echo back their training data. It makes no sense to me that a superior intelligence would be unable to trivially learn a new language syntax and apply its semantic knowledge to the new syntax. So I believe that either LLMs will improve to the point that they will easily pick up a new language or we will realize that LLMs themselves are the dead end.

The question is whether this language can be well understood by LLMs. Lack of declarations seems a mistake. The LLM will have to infer types, which is not something LLMs are good at. Most of the documentation is missing, so there's no way to tell how this handles data structures.

A programming language for LLMs isn't a bad idea, but this doesn't look like a good one.

> Do you debug JVM bytecode? V8's internals? No. You debug at your abstraction layer. If that layer is natural language, debugging becomes: "Hey Claude, the login is failing for users with + in their email."

I’ve run into countless situations where this simply doesn’t work. I once had a simple off-by-one error and the AI could not fix it. I tried explaining the end result of what I was seeing, as implied by this example, with no luck. I then found why it was happening myself and explained the exact problem and where it was, and the AI still couldn’t do it. It was sloshing back and further between various solutions and compounding complexity that didn’t help the issue. I ended up manually fixing the problem in the code.

The AI needs to be nearly flawless before this is viable. I feel like we are still a long way away from that.

The entire point of LLM-assisted development is to audit the code generated by AI and to further instruct it to either improve it or instruct it to fix the shortcomings - kind of being a senior dev doing a code review on your colleague's merge request. In fact, as developers, we usually read code more than we write it, which is also why you should prefer simple and verbose code over clever code in large codebases. This seems like it would be instead aimed at pure vibecoded slop.

> Do you debug JVM bytecode? V8's internals?

People do debug assembly generated by compilers to look for miscompilations, missed optimization opportunities, and comparison between different approaches.