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June 18, 2025

Programming Language Design in the Era of LLMs: A Return to Mediocrity?

This has been a fun, exciting and impactful thread of research for the past several decades, but it would be remiss of me at this point to not mention the "e-LLM-ephant" in the room. It has only been a few years, and LLMs and LLM-generated code has already permeated widely across the software ecosystem and continuously forces developers to reevaluate their preconceptions of what is and isn't possible for a machine to generate. Namely, this also includes problems that we might previously have sought to tackle with language design (eliminating boilerplate, capturing conventions or common sense etc.).