Those are just features waiting to be developed. I'm currently experimenting with building LLM-powered editor services (all the stuff you mentioned). It's not there yet, but as local models become faster and more powerful, it'll unlock.

This particular example isn't very useful, but anecdotally it feels very nice to not need perfect syntax. How many programmer hours have been wasted because of trivial coding errors?

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globular-toast 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> How many programmer hours have been wasted because of trivial coding errors?

Historically probably quite a lot, but with a decent editor and tools like gofmt that became popular in the past 10 years I'd say syntax is just not a problem any more. I can definitely recall the frustration of a missing closing bracket in HTML in the 90s, but nowadays people can turn out perfectly syntactically correct code on day 1 of a new language.

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danielvaughn 3 days ago | parent [-]

That’s fair. Not to shift the goal post but my intuition has shifted recently as to what I’d consider a “trivial” problem. API details, off-by-one errors, and other issues like that are what I’d lump into that category.

Easy way to say it is that source code requires perfection, whereas pseudo-code takes the pressure off of that last 10%, and IMO that could have significant benefits for cognitive load if not latency.

Still all hypothetical, and something I’m actively experimenting with. Not a hill I’m gonna die on, but it’s super fun to play and imagine what might be possible.

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