Wow! I stumbled onto your paper a while ago when I was looking into structural editing and thinking of a masters in CS, exploring editor interfaces / feedback loops.

(Maybe your paper is famous and it’s not wild that I read it, but it was wild to see after so many years)

I never took that path, spent time in tech industry confused why people didn’t seem interested in structural editing and better editing tools.

Out of curiosity, how do you think LLMs and genai affect the value of structural editors and similar tooling?

Part of me wants to stay disciplined— of course it’s valuable to work efficiently and work on the AST and with a repl. The other part of me gets paid to work on essentially a punch card system (building dev, ship to prod and see what happens)