Simon Peyton Jones

And astonishingly, that very simple.

So all ChatGPT is, is a trillion floating point numbers and a lot of floating point arithmetic.

That helps you to make sense of a question like, can ChatGPT have feelings?

Well, it gives you, of course, that's a philosophical question, but informs your discussion about it.

If you know that all it is,

It's trillion floats and a lot of floating point arithmetic.

That's all.

Nothing more.

Anyway, sorry, long answer to your question.

So, yes, basic programming, absolutely.

Becoming very skilled in how to use WebDjango Framework 2.7, maybe not so much.

Maybe.

I think one thing that LLMs are very good at is knowing the arcane and complicated APIs that many of these frameworks present.

There's just, you know, 10,000 functions you've got to know.

And if an LLM is really good at knowing that, I don't want to learn them.

The formula language is a functional language, isn't it?

Doesn't have any side effects.

You program entirely with values.

So the formula language of Excel is Excel.

A functional programming language.