[data-ottawa]

Tangental, but I worry that LLMs will cause a great stagnation in programming language evolution, and possibly a bunch of tech.

I've tried using a few new languages and the LLMs would all swap the code for syntactically similar languages, even after telling them to read the doc pages.

Whether that's for better or worse I don't know, but it does feel like new languages are genuinely solving hard problems as their raison d'etre.

[breakingcups]

Not just that, I think this will happen on multiple levels too. Think de-facto ossified libraries, tools, etc.

LLMs thrive because they had a wealth of high-quality corpus in the form os Stack Overflow, Github, etc. and ironically their uptake is causing a strangulation of that source of training data.

[sillystu04]

Perhaps the next big programming language will be designed specifically for LLM friendliness. Some things which are human friendly like long keywords are just a waste of tokens for LLMs, and there could be other optimisations too.