kbourgoin

Thanks for the catch! It's fixed now. Hugo template messed me up. I'll fix it to look like proper superscript later.

Hey there. My point was close to that, but not quite as drastic as saying languages themselves are obsolete. It's more that less developer friendly languages look more appealing if an LLM can paper over the parts that you don't like. I've been working in Python for a long time because I enjoy writing it. If Copilot starts writing more and more, does that quality matter as much? I've always really disliked Java because it's so verbose. Maybe it's not so bad with copious code generation via LLM.

And, yeah, ChatGPT is impressive in lots of ways, but writing code isn't one of them. I look forward to trying GPT4 but I'm not holding my breath.

I've found Copilot to be much more impressive and useful. You have to know what you want to write, and double check everything, but it's still a big difference. I'm not switching to brainfuck any time soon, but I'd be more open to languages I used to turn my nose up at.

I don't think these things will change overnight, but I really do think the things people value in a language are going to shift over the next few years and that ergonomics/aesthetics (the bits I think of as "the language") just aren't going to matter as much.

I couldn't agree more. Popularity matters because of training data availability, not that a language is pleasant to write. It means Python probably still has a long life ahead of it, but newcomers have a much higher barrier to entry.

You should consider showing how they change over time, since a lot of the personal deductions will be phased out.

It's even worse than that. The big difference between the two was press coverage. The GP actually has it backwards. flavors.me was out well before about.me started, but when about.me launched they generated a massive amount of buzz, in particular on TC. It effectively left flavors.ms in the dust even though flavors was always the better product. Better IMO, of course.

edit: GP didn't get it wrong, I just read it backwards. Still, sad to see hype trump quality.