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chrisjjtoday at 6:17 PM1 replyview on HN

> why would you still target TypeScript, which is entirely a kludge to shoehorn type safety into JS for the benefit of human programmers?

To help the hapless humans who have to fix it, silly!


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paulheberttoday at 9:49 PM

Yeah this logic assumes humans never need to read, edit, or understand the code.

Maybe we’ll get there but I don’t think we’re there yet.

I still regularly run into bugs that agents struggle to solve.

And they often churn creating more and more convoluted solutions which are then more error prone and harder to reason about