>Following this hypothesis, what C did to assembler, what Java did to C, what Javascript/Python/Perl did to Java, now LLM agents are doing to all programming languages.
What did Javascript/Python do to Java? They are not interchangeable nor comparable. I don't think Federico's opinion is worth reading further.
Plus Python and Perl predate Java.
Three of Java's top application categories are webapps, banking/financial services, and big data. Node and Pyspark have displaced quite a lot of that.