keenan: a DSL nobody writes in is useless — LLMs still model every token

keenanisalive · x · 2026-09-20

A follow-up in the DSL/3D-learning thread: keenanisalive argues that building a language is pointless if nothing is written in it — the LLM still needs to model the probability of every next token in the target language. This reinforces his earlier point that "designing a DSL from scratch" via RL is hard to even define, since the renderer already encodes substantial priors.

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