Comments by "Vitaly L" (@vitalyl1327) on "How to think of GPT as a developer" video.

  1. English is not a programming language. Consider this situation: you have an ideal team of very smart and obedient developers. Forget about AI for now, just a team of ideal humans. You give them instructions of what to build in plain English, having some idea of what you want to achieve in your mind. How many iterations will you need in order to get what you want? Likely, a lot. And the documented interaction between you and your team will not be sufficient for another team to blindly reproduce the result without having an access to you or the original team.
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  2. Yet, there is a huge difference between a well-defined formal language, however declarative or not, and a vague, undefined, open to multiple interpretations, heavily context-dependend natural languages.
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  3. Imagine you have a team of developers, you can interact with them in plain English. Can you produce valuable software that solve problems worth solving this way? Hardly. You need a lot more than just an obedient team implementing their perception of your ideas. More than that. The vast majority of people are fundamentally incapable of expessing their thoughts coherently. For a lot of them, formal languages are much more accessible tools than the vague natural languages.
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