One thing I’m curious about with LLMs producing code is what it’ll do to programming languages. While we as a community like to believe we’re a pretty forward looking bunch in reality we’re really quite conservative. With good reason! Code is in text files we stich together with a compiler and build rules. We assume POSIX style APIs and environments. We’ve seen interesting alternatives (Smalltalk, Lisp Machines, etc) but we stick to what we know. I sort of fear LLM use will further cement that.

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