Re:Peer Programming with LLMs, for Senior+ Engineers
by jampekka on Sunday May 25, 2025 @08:23AM
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> I some responsibility for this, since I was one of the people who basically said, in the 2010s, that we should just give up and use popular languages like JavaScript because they're popular. I regret that now.
In 2010s the move was towards more concise languages and programming techniques in e.g. JavaScript scene too. CoffeeScript is a prime example of this.
But then came the enterprise software people pushing their Javaisms and now we have verbose bondage and ceremony mess like TypeScript and ES6 modules.
And in a tragicomic turn after we made expressing programmer intent formally so difficult, we are turning into writing bad novels for LLMs in a crapshoot trial and error hoping it writes the pointless boilerplate correctly.
In 2010s the move was towards more concise languages and programming techniques in e.g. JavaScript scene too. CoffeeScript is a prime example of this.
But then came the enterprise software people pushing their Javaisms and now we have verbose bondage and ceremony mess like TypeScript and ES6 modules.
And in a tragicomic turn after we made expressing programmer intent formally so difficult, we are turning into writing bad novels for LLMs in a crapshoot trial and error hoping it writes the pointless boilerplate correctly.