[sshine]

> enormous barrier to the adoption of new programming languages, because no new code will be written in them, therefore LLMs will never learn to write the code

Let’s see.

I’ve vibe-coded some apps with TypeScript and react, not knowing react at all, because I thought it’s the most exemplified framework online.

But I came to a point where my app was too buggy and diverged, and being unable to debug it, I refactored it to Vue, since I personally know it better.

My point is that just because there’s more training data, the quietly is not necessarily excellent; I ended up with a mixture of conflicting idioms seasoned react developers would have frowned upon.

Picking a less exemplified language and supplementing with more of your knowledge of the language might yield better results. E.g. while the AI can’t write better Rust on its own, I don’t mind contributing with Rust code myself more often.

[roygbiv2]

> But I came to a point where my app was too buggy and diverged, and being unable to debug it, I refactored it to Vue, since I personally know it better.

One of the many pitfalls with using an llm to write code. It's very easy to find yourself with a codebase you know nothing about that you can't progress any further because it keeps breaking.

[sshine]

It was an interesting experiment working with very little clue of the generated code.

I could learn about react and understand the large-scale incongruences / mismatching choices the LLM made for me.

But I already have one reactive framework in my wetware that I can have an educated opinion on.