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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) · 19w
I accidentally read LinkedIn again and lots of people are talking about the flow of writing code with an LLM and then using a feedback loop with formal verification to reject incorrect implementations...
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Actual _formal_ specifications and proof of corretness against them exist, but they are difficult and require a lot of work and specialized tools and skills. There is absolutely no way that any of the LLM crowd is doing that -- some form of semi-formal specification-as-test, perhaps, but that's _not_ the same thing at all.
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) · 19w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq2wavhzl72hhelev2ud6rcf850x27f9r0zd9waqt9kl03qvfk3etqs9v5xp There is absolutely no way that any of the LLM crowd is doing that The folks I'm seeing are people with a background in formal verification picking up LLMs as the synthesis bit. So t...