About whether programming languages will evolve to suit AI rather than humans.
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Yes 17 (14%)Not sure 25 (20%)No 81 (66%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether programming languages will evolve to suit AI rather than humans.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
it makes sense for languages, stacks and interfaces to become more amenable to interfacing with AI
The theoretical advance we're waiting for in LLMs is auditable determinism. Basically, the ability to take a set of prompts and have a model recreate what it did before.
At that point, the utility of human-readable computer languages sort of goes out the door. The AI prompts become the human-readable code, the model becomes the interpreter and it eventually, ideally, speaks directly to the CPUs' control units.
This is still years--possibly decades--away. But I agree that we'll see computer languages evolving towards auditability by non-programmers and reliabibility in parsing by AI.