>> what if we treated prompts as the actual source code?
You would not do this because: unlike programming languages, natural languages are ambiguous and thus inadequate to fully specify software.
You would not do this because: unlike programming languages, natural languages are ambiguous and thus inadequate to fully specify software.
> this assumes models can achieve strict prompt adherence
What does strict adherence to an ambiguous prompt even mean? It’s like those people asking Babbage if his machine would give the right answer when given the wrong figures. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a proposition.