Re:Nerd: The First Programming Language Not Built for Humans
by sublinear on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @09:58PM
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Why do people keep saying LLMs work well with high level scripting languages?
I've never had a good result. Just tons of silent bugs that are obvious those experienced with Python, JS/TS, etc. and subtle to everyone else.
Re:Nerd: The First Programming Language Not Built for Humans
by alienbaby on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @10:09PM
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Perhaps they are being more successful in their use of llm's than you are?
Re:Nerd: The First Programming Language Not Built for Humans
by sublinear on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @10:30PM
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Yes "success" as they understand it, and they are always so smug while refusing to show or even discuss the code the LLM produced.
A poor craftsman may blame his tools, but some tools really are the wrong ones for the job.
Re:Nerd: The First Programming Language Not Built for Humans
by raddan on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @11:16PM
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I keep having this nagging suspicion that the biggest AI boosters just aren’t very good programmers. Maybe they cannot see all the subtle bugs. I’m not an amazing coder but I frequently have “wait, stop!” moments when generating code with an LLM.
How much of the code is read by humans, though? I think using languages that LLMs work well with, like TS or Python, makes a lot of sense but the chosen language still needs to be readable by humans.