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Or the converse?

If Copilot is as good as it gets but only for some languages, won’t it influence what languages will be chosen by devs or companies?

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Indeed, I could imagine it becoming more difficult to adopt a language that doesn't already have a large corpus to train on.

Could there be a boom followed by a bust? Sometimes a greedy algorithm looks good until it doesn't. It's at least imaginable that AI coding helps you do stuff locally that eventually ties you in knots globally, because you were able to rush in without thinking things through.

(It's also conceivable I'm put out of a job, but I'm not worried yet. So far I can only imagine AI automates away the boring part, and I super-duper-want that.)

I really wonder sometimes if Java would never have made it that far if it wasn’t for eclipse and later IntelliJ.

Well, there are few things many programmers enjoy better than automating away repetitive tasks. If not exactly intellij or eclipse, something that achieved the same end would certainly have arisen.

I'm sure there's at least a few relevant XKCD strips to insert here.

Would be an interesting fact so see companies adopt languages that need significantly more code to reach the same result just because some AI can automate a lot.

Thinking about generating 10 times the code you need, just because you can generate it instead of writing (perfomant?) code.

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