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The fate of "small" open source

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295 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 16 Nov 25 19:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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matheusmoreira ◴[17 Nov 25 00:42 UTC] No.45949898[source]▶
> I don’t know which direction we’re going in with AI

Maybe programming languages will be designed for AIs in the future. Maybe they'll have features that make grafting unknown generated code easier.

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1. AlexandrB ◴[17 Nov 25 16:37 UTC] No.45955240[source]▶
Will we ever even get a widespread new programming language? AIs work great for coding because they have massive codebases in C/C++/Python/JS/etc. to train on. If I create a language called "foo" tomorrow, no such codebase will exist for it and the lack of AI support for the language will be a huge barrier for adoption so it's going to be much less likely to catch on like Python did back in the day.
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2. matheusmoreira ◴[17 Nov 25 22:42 UTC] No.45959248[source]▶
I'm working on my own lisp. I've used ChatGPT to generate some cases for my test suite. Somehow it can generate decent code if I instruct it thoroughly enough and provide samples. Maybe the fact all lisps have similar syntax helps?