alt Hacker NewsA while back I did this experiment where I asked ChatGPT to imagine a new language such that it's best for AI to write code in and to list the properties of such a language. Interestingly it spit out all the properties that are similar to today's functional, strongly typed, in fact dependently typed, formally verifiable / proof languages. Along with reasons why such a language is easier for AI to reason about and generate programs. I found it fascinating because I expected something like typescript or kotlin.
While I agree formal verification itself has its problems, I think the argument has merit because soon AI generated code will surpass all human generated code and when that happens we atleast need a way to verify the code can be proved that it won't have security issues or adheres to compliance / policy.
AI generated code is pretty far from passing professional human generated code, unless you're talking about snippets. Who should be writing mission critical code in the next 10 years, the people currently doing it (with AI assistance), or e.g. some random team at Google using AI primarily? The answer is obvious.