Comment by bloppe
6 days ago
> programming languages / tools better suited for LLM strengths
The bitter lesson is that the best languages / tools are the ones for which the most quality training data exists, and that's pretty much necessarily the same languages / tools most commonly used by humans.
> Correct code not nice looking code
"Nice looking" is subjective, but simple, clear, readable code is just as important as ever for projects to be long-term successful. Arguably even more so. The aphorism about code being read much more often than it's written applies to LLMs "reading" code as well. They can go over the complexity cliff very fast. Just look at OpenClaw.
>> simple, clear, readable code is just as important as ever for projects to be long-term successful
Is it though? I'm a long-time code purist, but I am beginning to wonder about the assumptions underlying our vocation.
I guess it's hard to tell until we see more long-term AI-generated project, but many of the ones we have so far (OpenClaw and OpenCode for instance) are well-known for their stability issues, and it seems "even more AI" is not about to fix that.