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bloppetoday at 7:19 AM1 replyview on HN

> programming languages / tools better suited for LLM strengths

The bitter lesson is that the best languages / tools are the ones for which the most quality training data exists, and that's pretty much necessarily the same languages / tools most commonly used by humans.

> Correct code not nice looking code

"Nice looking" is subjective, but simple, clear, readable code is just as important as ever for projects to be long-term successful. Arguably even more so. The aphorism about code being read much more often than it's written applies to LLMs "reading" code as well. They can go over the complexity cliff very fast. Just look at OpenClaw.


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anthonyrstevenstoday at 3:36 PM

>> simple, clear, readable code is just as important as ever for projects to be long-term successful

Is it though? I'm a long-time code purist, but I am beginning to wonder about the assumptions underlying our vocation.

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