Re: Amazing Visual Perception, even for ASCII Input [GPT 5.3] (Re: Only, three decades in software engineering?)

On 03/08/2026 10:21 AM, Tristan Wibberley wrote:

On 08/03/2026 09:37, Mild Shock wrote:

Hi,
>
The amazing things is ChatGPT, and possibly
other LLMs don't think linearly. I literally
posted the code like this:
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040C AF
040D 11 0000
0410 CD3300
0413 21 0000
0416 36 00
0418 E5
0419 D1
041A 13
041B 01 0904
041E ED B0
0420 3E 02
0422 32 0000
>
XOR A
LD DE,0000h
CALL 0033h
LD HL,0000h
LD (HL),00h
PUSH HL
POP DE
INC DE
LD BC,0409h
LDIR
LD A,02h
LD (0000h),A
>
Two consecutive columns. And it moved
the columns side by side all on its own.
I noticed that many times,

>
I'd expect that to be a very rudimentary technique. Now, if it
recognises that the bottom half and top half of the first column have
been swapped for each other I'd be marginally more impressed but imagine
if 1000 fake usenets have had this conversation... of course it's been
tried before and supported correctly today.
>
Can it produce instructions for housecats? I was watching videos of cats
with buttons and a cat announced its next two actions with:
>
Verb A
Verb B
Noun A
Noun B
>
where its owner kept trying to communicate with Verb A Noun A Verb B Noun B.
>

A usual notion of "templating" and "typing" (type theory's)
atop assembler as a sort of macro-assembler is a rather underserved
idea of the language as about a "1GL machine-wise, 4GL expressitivity".
There are usual ideas about the arithmetic logic unit, then as
with regards to the movement of data, register transfer logic
and the like, then as well about SIMD/SWAR and SIMD/SIMT,
or vector super-scalar units and subdividing those,
or vector super-scalar units and wide parallel simple units like GPUs,
about that those make for alike the, "pseudo-operations",
that are common across architectures.
The notion of templating and typing encompasses a lot
of expressitivity, concisely.
The metaprogramming is a usual account of the derived
after schema, while "generative programming" the idea
has been around since the 1960's.