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by hy4000days 485 days ago
This.

Future programming language designers are then answering questions like:

"How low-level can this language be while considering generally available models and hardware available can only generate so many tokens per second?",

"Do we have the language models generate binary code directly, or is it still more efficient time-wise to generate higher level code and use a compiler?"

"Do we ship this language with both a compiler and language model?"

"Do we forsake code readability to improve model efficiency?"

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I’m excited for my new woodworking career if this ever becomes a reality. LLMs are truly sucking the art out of everything.
I think the dichotomy between how developers have reacted to LLMs (mass adoption) and how authors, illustrators, etc. have reacted (derision, avoidance) demonstrates that coding was never an art to begin with. Code is not an end in itself, it's an obstacle in the way of an end.

There are people who enjoy code for the sake of it, but they're a very, very small group.