I think not much will change in short term. I can't imagine every programming practitioner is going to switch to AI tools even if they get a lot better than th

I think not much will change in short term. I can't imagine every programming practitioner is going to switch to AI tools even if they get a lot better than they are now. There will be contrarian people making new languages and writing in them. Some of them might catch on and become popular. Also, it seems that the AI tools don't suck that bad even for made-up toy languages. Maybe it'll struggle if the new language is using lots of unconventional ideas. ChatGPT will not innovate for you. If I'm a researcher for new programming languages, I can't imagine it would be all that useful for me in the research part. Maybe in the implementation part. I certainly wouldn't stop research just because AI is suddenly a thing. Also, it seems like finetuning is pretty cheap, I expect it might not be very difficult to add knowledge about a new programming language to an existing foundational model made for code. The tools to do this will get better and more accessible. I think my hotter take is that new programming languages that are really nice for humans are perhaps also really nice for the AIs. So LLMs being a thing wouldn't necessarily change how you design programming languages. And my even more hot take is that I think the impact of these tools is waaaaay overestimated for now. If some absolutely, obviously amazing programming language is suddenly invented that is only usable with AI assistance that could change things. I am not holding my breath though.