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> I don't actually do LLM research or engineering myself - I hate Python :)

What programming language(s) do you like?

Idris, Coq, F#/OCaml, Scheme. C# is also nice, and has the significant advantage that people will pay me to write it....

I was being a bit facetious, Python is perfectly fine for writing programs and software. The problem is the AI/ML dialect of Python. I don't like working in domains that involve big 3rd-party ecosystems and libraries[1]. I prefer doing something bespoke for a smaller organization, even if that means solving a smaller problem.

[1] Interacting with tediously-but-necessarily detailed libraries and programming frameworks is an area where ChatGPT is genuinely useful - codegen which boils down to "translate this mathematical English into PyTorch." So at some point I might go back and actually program some of this stuff.

Do you have recommendations for getting into ML-family languages and functional approaches, or even just F#? Although Python's ecosystem and plentiful training data for LLMs are useful, trying Elm made me want to find something better at types.

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