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adamddev1today at 6:49 AM1 replyview on HN

The author talks about how Haskell needs to catch up to stay relevant in "the AI era."

> That means taking AI seriously as a first-class user of the ecosystem.

Honestly for me any time a language or a tool markets itself as "for the AI era" or takes agents seriously as first class users, I run. It's a bad smell for me.

I'm happy that there are things like Haskell that are still focussed on correctness and sanity, and not pandering to the AI psychosis driven on by the market.

I am really disturbed by this ideological framing of "it's the AI era now" "we have to let the agents run" "speed, speed, speed" "if you don't learn to engineer with random garbage, you will be left behind!!"

Some of us will need to leave the cult of the empire of AI and live in caves like the desert fathers, committed to actually crafting correct things.


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youre-wrong3today at 6:59 AM

> I run. It's a bad smell for me.

The smell follows you but atleast we don’t have to smell it any more. Thank you.