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tovejyesterday at 7:38 PM1 replyview on HN

What do you mean? Programming languages all have different strengths and weaknesses that are completely orthogonal to LLMs.

Even if you vibe code an entire system, a human will eventually have to read and modify the vibe code. Most likely in order to refactor the whole thing, but even if by some miracle the overall quality is alright, somebody will have to review the code and fix bugs. The programming language and it's ecosystem will always be a factor in that case.


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jrm4yesterday at 9:24 PM

Yeah, but those perceived strengths and weaknesses I'd say more often than not end up being non-issues i.e. popular chatter about whether a language is good or not and how it is used in real life pretty much never line up.

And my guess is that this "disparity" only widens with AI.

I'm not saying discussions like this aren't theoretically interesting or that people who are into it shouldn't have them. But my guess is they overwhelmingly won't matter large-scale.