> Why is it that languages like this don't scale?
Stanislav Datskovskiy addressed this rather well:
Stanislav Datskovskiy addressed this rather well:
> I predict that no tool of any kind which too greatly amplifies the productivity of an individual will ever be permitted to most developers.
There's a new essay in here, somewhere, about why copilot and AI coding is succeeding at bridging this gap.
Which means management must make a choice: getting good code relatively fast from a small pool of high-value individuals that it must therefore cherish and treat well...
Or get poor-quality code, slowly, but from a large and redundant group of less skilled developers, who are cheaper and easier to replace.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that from the three characteristics of "good, fast, and cheap", you can pick which two you want.
In this case, maybe the choice is as simple as "good and fast" or "cheap."
If the structure of the business or the market requires management to pick "cheap" (with concomitant but unspoken "bad and slow") then the structure, I submit, is bad.
I mean, unless it proves with time that in fact it does not help at all and actually slows people down.
https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...