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No he could have left out languages entirely. It’s not relevant for actual discussion.

A non transformer language model written from scratch is more interesting than

“I did X in Python/Rust/Flavour-of-the-month-thing”

I would say the ability to actually use software is kind of relevant to said software. There's definitely software I wanted to use but gave up on because it was just impossible to actually install. Hell I just spent half of today coaxing Claude to fix some Kotlin software so that it worked with the version of Java I have. Let me tell you that would have taken a good few weeks without AI, even if I was unfortunate enough to be an expert in Maven and Gradle. "Written in Rust" would have saved me a huge amount of (pre-AI) time for that software.

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