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1. deepsq+br[view] [source] 2026-01-20 01:01:48
>>Scramb+(OP)
At this point, I am starting to feel like we don’t need new languages, but new ways to create specifications.

I have a hypothesis that an LLM can act as a pseudocode to code translator, where the pseudocode can tolerate a mixture of code-like and natural language specification. The benefit being that it formalizes the human as the specifier (which must be done anyway) and the llm as the code writer. This also might enable lower resource “non-frontier” models to be more useful. Additionally, it allows tolerance to syntax mistakes or in the worst case, natural language if needed.

In other words, I think llms don’t need new languages, we do.

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2. larodi+rH1[view] [source] 2026-01-20 13:16:27
>>deepsq+br
we have some markup for architectures like - d2lang, sequencediagram.org's, bpmn.io xmls (which are OMG XMLs), so question is - can we master these, and not invent new stuf for a while?

p.s. a combination of the above fares very well during my agentic coding adventures.

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