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Generating unseen code is not hard.

Set rules on what’s valid, which most languages already do; omit generation of known code; generate everything else

The computer does the work, programmers don’t have to think it up.

A typed language example to explain; generate valid func sigs

func f(int1, int2) return int{}

If that’s our only func sig in our starting set then it makes it obvious

Well relative to our tiny starter set func f(int1, int2, int3) return int{} is novel

This Redis post is about fixing a prior decision of a random programmer. A linguistics decision.

That’s why LLMs seem worse than programmers because we make linguistics decisions that fit social idioms.

If we just want to generate all the never before seen in this model code we don’t need a programmer. If we need to abide laws of a flexible language nature, that’s what a programmer is for; compose not just code by compliance with ground truth.

That antirez is good at Redis is a bias since he has context unseen by the LLM. Curious how well antirez would do with an entirely machine generated Redis-clone that was merely guided by experts. Would his intuition for Redis’ implementation be useful to a completely unknown implementation?

He’d make a lot of newb errors and need mentorship, I’m guessing.




I think we're hoping for more than the 'infinite monkeys bashing out semantically correct code' approach.


Ok, define what means and make it. Then as soon as you do realize you run into Gödel’s understanding your machine doesn’t solve problems related to its own existence and needs outside help. So you need to generate that yet unseen solution that lacks context for understanding itself… repeat and see it’s exactly generating one yet unseen layer of logic after another.

Read the article; his younger self failed to see logic needed now. Add that onion peel. No such thing as perfect clairvoyance.

Even Yann LeCun’s energy based models driving robots have the same experience problem.

Make a computer that can observe all of the past and future.

Without perfect knowledge our robots will fail to predict some composition of space time before they can adapt.

So there’s no probe we can launch that’s forever and generally able to survive with our best guess when launched.

More people need to study physical experiments and physics and not the semantic rigor of academia. No matter how many ideas we imagine there is no violating physics.

Pop culture seems to have people feeling starship Enterprise is just about to launch from dry dock.




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