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joshmarinacciyesterday at 6:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

Programming language innovation is measured in decades. I expect LLMs will make it easier to prototype new concepts, but adoption will still progress on a human timescale


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sick_of_slopyesterday at 6:48 PM

The marketing pitch for these things was that they were supposed to induce "cambrian explosion of creations". That there was zero barrier to building anything anymore. This is surely true in programming languages especially, considering how fast LLMs took over software development? Surely this would mean we would get new ideas faster if that was the case? There is literally nothing stopping language designers from getting new concepts out there now even if nobody is using them in production yet.

> LLMs will make it easier to prototype new concepts,

So where are these prototypes?

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kelseyfrogtoday at 3:27 AM

If LLMs are writing code, won't adoption progress on LLM-timescales? Humans would seem to be out of the equation.