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Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by larodi on Thursday March 19, 2026 @07:23PM (#47447883)
relax, soon u be rewriting the essence of all these libs into something new. python has its days numbered also perhaps for many engineering decisions that are now cheap via llms.
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by stuaxo on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:34PM (#47449748)
The LLMs write bad python as easily as any other language.

To make it good, you need to review and interate.

Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by the_arun on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:15AM (#47450428)
It is very hard to manually review AI generated code. May be we have to use another LLM to review and assume everything is good.
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by tasuki on Friday March 20, 2026 @07:35AM (#47453185)
This hasn't been my experience. I find LLM code about as hard to review as human code, perhaps a little easier.
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by galaxyLogic on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:10AM (#47450388)
I think this means reviewing is the main thing with AI, and therefore the language to use should be one where reviewing is easy, for humans.
Re:Astral to Join OpenAI by larodi on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:54AM (#47517384)
indeed, from my perspective doing heavy agentic dev for six months, the language all is implemented should be easy. its api - also. like Swift is super easy to read, but the APIs of underlying libs - not so much. Python is reasonably easy to read, but with GIL and everything is a very slow choice. Zig seems a nice apporach to readability, Rust is definitely not so readable.

we may want to invent something akin to concise math notion, but not so much, in between pseudo-code and math.