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by steveklabnik 15 days ago
The frontier moves quickly enough that empiric testing is often out of date by the time that it’s published.
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For sure! It's possible there are relatively invariant properties that make one language or another "better" for LLM coding in general though (even if that's just the self-fulfilling prophecy of size of the training corpus).
I’m in agreement that I think that these exist, but I just haven’t seen anything that justifies this belief of mine yet. I have been looking, but it’s possible I just haven’t seen anything seen it.

I’ve seen a lot of blog posts with fairly dubious claims here with relatively flimsy evidence. And I’ve seen a few papers trying to tackle the topic. But I think it’s a very open area of research currently.