Fast and Hard Code

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. 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. Which in turn means that people can, and do, choose based on the mar