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

This emerging landscape holds a lot of potential, and there are many interesting questions in asking how LLMs can contribute to software development, but as I watch, I am also noticing a worrying trend of LLM developments supplanting advances and interest in the design of DSLs: why craft a DSL that eliminates all boilerplate when an LLM can generate whatever code you need?

Is there a future for Language Design in this new era of LLMs? The point of this blog post is to present some thoughts I’ve been thinking about in this emerging space, prompt for discussion, and outline some potential ways forward language design can co-exist and collaborate with the advances in LLMs.

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