alt Hacker NewsI don't think those assertions about AI development necessarily hold. And I think it'd be a depressing future if we can't ever have anything new or better that wasn't popular in the training set as of November 2025.
I wrote about some of my thoughts with Zena and AI here: https://zena-lang.dev/blog/2026/09/languages-for-the-ai-era/
Yes, we're building a sad world. I'm glad you noticed. Until we get LLMs with online learning, training data will dominate.