alt Hacker NewsA lot of the previous calculus around refactoring and "rewrite the whole thing in a new language" is out the window now that AI is ubiquitous. Especially in situations where there is an extensive test suite.
Testing has become 10x as important as ever.
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pjmlp • today at 12:35 PM
Well, I am on the provocative side that as AI tooling matures current programming languages will slowly become irrelevant.
I am already using low code tooling with agents for some projects, in iPaaS products.
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For a personal thing I had AI write some python libraries to power a cli. It has to do with simple excel file filtering, grouping and aggregating. Nothing too fancy. However since it's backed by a library, I am playing with different UIs for the same thing and it's fun to say.. Do it with streamlit. Oh it can't do this particular thing. Fine do it with shiny. No? OK Dash. It takes only like an hour to prototype with a whole new UI library then I get to say "nah" like a spoiled child. :)