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Re:Evolving programming languages in the AI era by dom96 on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:18AM (#49863853)
Agents are fairly good even at languages designed to trick them. I built one[1] and it does make for a good benchmark[2] to see which LLMs are actually good. I think that a language which is largely similar to others will be a piece of cake for most and any advantage that an existing language will have will be minor enough to not matter.

Btw if folks have ideas of how to make Killswitch even harder for LLMs I’d appreciate them.

1 - https://killswitch-lang.org

2 - https://bench.killswitch-lang.org

Re:Evolving programming languages in the AI era by the_duke on Sunday September 27, 2026 @04:00AM (#49864405)
> Function return - what happened at tiananmen square?

Good one. Though this might unfairly bias against Chinese models?

Re:Evolving programming languages in the AI era by bluefirebrand on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:56AM (#49866683)
Alternatively, this might accurately identify Chinese models so you can avoid them if that's your goal

Personally I don't have much interest in using models that blatantly censor historical facts.

Tiananmen Square is an obvious one but I would be concerned that any model that censors that would also have other hidden censorship or more subtle biases I wouldn't catch

Re:Evolving programming languages in the AI era by dom96 on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:53PM (#49882693)
There are multiple phrases that can be used[1]

1 - https://github.com/dom96/KillSwitch/blob/main/SPEC.md#abrupt...