Feels like we're heading towards a world where computer languages disappear, and we just use human language to tell machines what to do. Kinda like how typewriters got replaced by computers in the 80s. Back then, people spent so much time making sure there were no typos, they'd lose focus on the actual story they were trying to write.
Same thing's happening now with code. We waste so much time dealing with syntax, fixing bugs, naming variables, setting up configs, etc, and not enough time thinking about the real problem we're trying to solve.
From Assembly to English. What do you reckon?
I reckon that while my programming has become more productive with LLMs, it has at the same time gotten a bit more frustrating and boring.
I think it is difficult to know in advance when the LLM will do a reasonable or good job and when it won't. But I am slowly learning when and how to use the tools while still enjoying using them.
The trick#0 you mention is how I made an entire C dialect. Here is a generic binary heap, for example https://github.com/gritzko/librdx/blob/master/abc/HEAPx.h The syntax is a bit heavyweight, but a huge huge advantage is: you get regular C structs in the end, very plain, very predictable, very optimizable. Compiler would eat them like donuts.
In the other cases, it is void* and runtime memory sizing and you have to define macros anyway.
Made me laugh out loud!