Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> writes: > Yeah, it’s also a thing I’ve been thinking: that free software is > fundamentally about knowledge sharing, and that “programs must be > written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to > execute” (Abelson in SICP).
Good quote. :) > But the examples Hugo gave are interesting: it’s really assistance for > the non-creative labor that relates to packaging. > > Could our tooling (‘guix refresh’ in this case) be compelling enough > that one doesn’t feel the need to resort to LLMs for this kind of tasks? The build logs provide good hints for fixing, but in natural language. I believe this can only be done at scale with some language model. I do not know where the many historic Lisp artificial intelligence work goes. Regards, Florian
