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This is not just false but egregiously wrong. The regular syntax of Lisp is a tremendous asset when it comes to LLMs being able to work directly in the image. If I had to score languages by how well they work with current LLMs, Common Lisp and Emacs Lisp would be at the very top.

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It's not just the syntax, but also the tools for debugging, the image paradigm itself, and the iterative approach to development!

Autolith can spawn managed Lisp REPLs either from saved images (so it can do checkpoints) and triage changes before committing them to files, and then run test suites in the same REPL, it's been very useful for this.

Do you have any benchmarks for larger tasks? The best others here have claimed is that it's not strongly proven to be harmful when you look at benchmarks.

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