> One of the memes on Twitter is that “programming is solved now.” I’m not sure to what degree it is, but one thing is pretty clear: the act of familiarizing yourself with a language no longer matters and some of the friction that mattered for humans does not matter for agents.

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> As a result, LLMs make language choice much less consequential than it used to be. If you don’t like the choice, you can seemingly rewrite it in another language and you can make it pick a language that you, as a programmer, are entirely unfamiliar with.

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> I’m not sure to what degree it (programming) is (solved.)

> the act of familiarizing yourself with a language no longer matters

> LLMs make language choice much less consequential than it used to be.

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You're reasoning as if you think it's mostly solved. How the hell are you going to read the code with any reliability or speed if you aren't familiar with the language? I realize languages have broad similarities.