Chatgpt and bus error

[Lance Bachmeier]

On Monday, 12 October 2026 at 23:51:54 UTC, jmh530 wrote:
> On Monday, 12 October 2026 at 21:59:54 UTC, Lance Bachmeier 
> wrote:
>> On Monday, 12 October 2026 at 19:17:48 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>>> On Monday, 12 October 2026 at 17:08:52 UTC, Lance Bachmeier 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Monday, 12 October 2026 at 06:32:37 UTC, Walter Bright 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> platforms, it has good language interoperability, etc. But I 
>>>> don't have a reason to stick with the out-of-the-box syntax 
>>>> any longer.
>>>
>>> why preprocessors over byte code or intruptitors? all 3 
>>> should be ancient cs, verifiable etc.
>>
>> They'll all be straightforward using a frontier model. I 
>> singled out the preprocessor because it's fast and easy even 
>> using a local model.
>
> Why not just tell the LLM what to do?

Sometimes that's reasonable. It's more efficient and less 
error-prone if I have an easy way to express my intentions 
precisely and let the language turn it into calls to libraries. 
For example, if I want to estimate a particular model, a syntax 
that lets me express the model concisely and unambiguously is 
easier than prompting an LLM.