alt Hacker NewsIf no one is reading or writing Rust code at that point, it all being agent driven, Rust itself is going to be a very short step before it gets disinter-mediated away and it's English -> complex heterogenous machine code across GPU/TPU/CPU/xPUs. Not sure Rust fans or C++ haters have thought this through.
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This. The next gen is LLM direct to machine code. Watch MSFT in this space with their dev tool industry -this will be the master stroke
This is such a bad take given the current LLM agents
High level languages :
- compress low level patterns into high level abstractions which save context/token
- express higher level meaning through things like names
- express and enforce constraints through type system
Why would you take something compilers are really good at (translating high level concepts into low level hardware instructions) and bake that into LLMs
If anything LLM programming language will be something like high level IR that's token optimized, but honestly the AI labs are so lazy (or bad) at fundamental engineering (look at their sandboxing solutions LOL), they are going to keep pumping training on shell/python/rust RL environments.
Hmm, is it though? Compilers relieve agents of the burden of much symbolic work, like many other tools that give agents value over a pure LLM.