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Most popular languages were designed with human writability in mind. I’m wondering how languages will evolve if that becomes less of a factor going forward. Of course, for the time being, we need a middle ground to satisfy both humans and LLMs writing code.

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I see human readability as being a key criterion moving forward since humans will be reviewing the code for the foreseeable future.

I also see functional and pure functional languages gaining in popularity because they're easier for LLMs to reason about, and they're easier to apply automated verification rules.

This is in the application space. It'll be interesting to see if any significant changes happen in the systems development space. Will LLMs drive the further adoption of Rust into the systems space?

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