Daily Productive Sharing 1272 - AI Agents Need a New Syntax

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Vaibhav Gupta pointed out that React fundamentally changed web development because it posed the question: “What if we combined HTML and JavaScript into a single syntax?” This led to the creation of JSX—and later, TSX.

  1. They believe prompts should be easy to locate and read. Essentially, prompts are just strings like HTML, but they’re often highly dynamic, making them closer in nature to TSX.
  2. They argue that switching models should be extremely simple because models improve every week, and your application should keep up with that progress.
  3. They proposed a solution called BAML (Basic-Ass Machine Learning), which can humorously be explained to your boss as “Basically a Made-up Language.”
  4. The core principle of BAML is that an LLM prompt is essentially a function.
  5. In BAML, each prompt functions like a callable—it takes parameters and returns a specific type of result.
  6. Because BAML is a configuration file format, the BAML toolchain allows you to transpile it into native Python, TypeScript, Ruby, and other languages.

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Vaibhav Gupta 指出，React 彻底改变了网页开发，因为它提出了一个问题：“如果我们把 HTML 和 JavaScript 融合到同一种语法里，会怎样？”这催生了 JSX（以及后来的 TSX）。

  1. 他们认为，提示词（prompts）应当易于查找和阅读。本质上，它们就像 HTML 一样只是字符串，但往往非常动态，更像 TSX。
  2. 他们主张，切换模型应当非常简单。因为模型每周都在进步，你的应用也应该随之进步。
  3. 他们提出了一个方案：BAML（Basic-Ass Machine Learning），也可以幽默地向老板解释为“Basically a Made-up Language”。
  4. BAML 的核心原则是：LLM 的提示词就是函数。
  5. 在 BAML 中，每个提示词都是一个函数，它接受参数并返回某种类型的结果。
  6. 因为 BAML 是一种配置文件格式，所以 BAML 工具链允许你将 BAML 转译成原生 Python、Typescript、Ruby 等代码。

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