What will LLM-powered software look like in the medium-term future?
> I don’t believe that natural language is an adequate medium for conveying instructions with the precision required for many applications.<p>Not clear to me if the author actually uses LLMs to do meaningful work, or is speculating about how they might be used.<p>I've written about 2500 lines of F# for the first time in the past 1.5 weeks using ChatGPT-4 to guide me. It has been an constant back and forth, iterative process. My decades of development experience factored in heavily to guide the process. I would've have been at maybe a quarter the progress without ChatGPT, or given up entirely on F# as my language.<p>I don't think that iterative aspect will be eliminated any time soon for AI-supported complex, creative processes. It's no different from tweaking inputs to a Photoshop filter until your experienced brain decides things look right.<p>To that end you need to know roughly what looks "right" before you use an LLM. This will all become second nature to the average developer in the next 5-10 years.