We programmed a program to program new programs (2011)

(smbc-comics.com)

37 points | by Georgelemental a day ago ago

2 comments

  • stevefan1999 a day ago ago

    Speaking aside, can LLM agentic coding be seen as a kind of second-order Futamura projection, ? That we instructed a human language interpreter, and using some rules and template generation, internal pattern matchings by LLMs, turned that into code, and then compiled, hence indirectly completing the Futamura loop.

    I would still define first-order Futamura projection as the original definition that you have direct encoding and code-to-code expansion and transformation between so.

  • jquaint 11 hours ago ago

    Thanks OP, I have been looking for this specific comic for a while!

    This feels very accurate to reality.