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by mountainriver 20 days ago
Why choose a significantly worse language when you are writing it in the same English either way.

It’s increasingly obvious that whole swaths of developers will just continue using the language they did before LLMs “just cause”

It’s more identity based at this point. My LLMs write Rust for me and I couldn’t tell you the difference outside of it being way faster and more reliable

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For immediate term you should stick with what you know. I think that makes for much better prompting where you are coming in with experience with the language and the general style you'd like to see.

Rust is a language I would like to adopt longterm, but its not one I can easily grok and so my output would be worse for it.

I think that's fair, but I honestly can't tell you if I'm writing python or rust anymore. When I review I just ask Claude to add comments to all the code to make things clear as I review