alt Hacker NewsIt's strange to me that this blog post was written in English. If AI is available, why aren't we all communicating in Lojban? [0] It's an obviously superior language. What does it matter that many people already communicate in English and much of computing depends on that language? AI doesn't care about that. Plus, if you ever need to edit Lojban without AI, you should be able to pick it up in a few weeks, right?
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I don’t think this holds at all, because the idea with a lot of vibe-code workflows is “humans never need to read the code” which would mean that human dev ergonomics are irrelevant. Here, the blog post is still clearly targeted at humans, so human reader ergonomics are still relevant.
AI has not been trained on Lojban. And furthermore, this article is almost certainly primarily intended to be read by humans directly.
I understand you're being facetious, but I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about programming languages in comparison.
Oh, I hadn't heard of lojban before. Cool project!
Anecdotally, I think language effects the way you think more than most people realise, which is why I think a logical language is a great idea: it might "trick" people into thinking more logically!
Now to get someone to actually speak it with!
Are you trying to psyop us into using Lojban?
Bona ideo! Ni ĉiuj komencu komuniki en Esperanto en ĉi tiu forumo.
Thank you for sending me down the Logical Language Group rabbit hole
Well for one, Lojban is not better than English.
what made you draw parallel between message that's being delivered by the blog, and how the blod should be delivered?
How is this comparable in any way?
The recipient of the blog posts (all of us) can read English. None can read whatever this Logjam is.
If AI writes code why not write it straight into assembler or binary? No need to compile an intermediate language if the end user (the machine) is running on binary not on Python, nor on Rust, nor on BASIC or Swift or any intermediary human-optimised language
A computer can understand all programming languages proficiently. How many people reading the blog know Lojban proficiently?
I get what you are trying to say but its a pretty bad analogy.
Also all programming languages do use english mainly in syntax but you are probably from a english-speaking country so you don't notice the irony.
And most people using AI will not need to edit their code at all if you go at all right? They will just keep refactoring with AI, why does the toughness of learning a language or whatever matter in this situation?
This post wasn't written in English, it was written in AIglish. (For god's sake, please tell me you see it at this point and you don't need to punch the opening into Pangram to see '100% AI' to recognize it by now?)
So in a way it's proving its own point. Why painfully write out by hand in English when the LLM will do a better job by porting your English prompt to AIglish and get +235 points and #3 on HN?