2025-12-28 17:17 UTC
@awwaiid@mastodon.social Discovering? Sure. Because the LLMs are telling us what many other people, taken as a collective, already know.
I'm bearish on "generative software engineering". LLMs don't seem able to originate ideas except when they confabulate. Granted, most humans are little better. But the LLMs are not going to develop wholly original work. That's going to have to be post-LLM AI.
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@awwaiid@mastodon.social 2025-12-28 17:23
@elight@tenforward.social I'm thinking much more along the lines of genetic programming, where we have some objective, generate a bunch of programs against it, keep/mutate the good ones. That technique DEFINITELY came up with some creative approaches; LLM world makes the generate/mutate even more interesting. It is trivial to have SOME algorithmic creativity, generating a D&D character with dice demonstrates that. What I'm getting at is we are creating new tools to explore the space of all possible programs.