I'm a big fan of literate programming myself (https://open.substack.com/pub/rethinkingsoftware/p/the-joy-of-literate-programming) and have been noodling on how AI could be utilized alongside it. I think there could be an ideal marriage there. You make a great point that chatting with AI in something like ChatGPT is already very similar to literate programming by itself.
Thanks for the comment! And yes, I agree. There's potential. The key point for me is that it's not simply about prompting an LLM for code. You could even use the techniques I'm alluding to in this post without even asking for code at all. It's all about conversing over your code to help understand it, clarify your thinking, brainstorm, etc.
I'm a big fan of literate programming myself (https://open.substack.com/pub/rethinkingsoftware/p/the-joy-of-literate-programming) and have been noodling on how AI could be utilized alongside it. I think there could be an ideal marriage there. You make a great point that chatting with AI in something like ChatGPT is already very similar to literate programming by itself.
Thanks for the comment! And yes, I agree. There's potential. The key point for me is that it's not simply about prompting an LLM for code. You could even use the techniques I'm alluding to in this post without even asking for code at all. It's all about conversing over your code to help understand it, clarify your thinking, brainstorm, etc.