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0 pointsdata-ottawa1y ago0 comments

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.

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breakingcups1y ago

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.

sillystu040y ago

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.

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