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by username223 362 days ago
That sounds grim, but not implausible. Domain-specific languages seemed like a significant improvement over general-purpose languages plus libraries. But now that we have a tool that lets you make Jazz Hands at your computer and have it spit out something that does most of what you want, do they really help?

Maybe some boring, kind-of-consistent language like C, Python, or Go is good enough. An LLM spits out a pile of code in one or more of them that does most of what you want, and you can fix it because it's less opaque than assembly. It doesn't sound like a job I'd want, but maybe that's just the way things will go.