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Humans are always used to working a certain way, and this fact benefits the incumbent technologies/tools/platforms of the day. This benefit must be outweighed b
by cal85 3y ago
Humans are always used to working a certain way, and this fact benefits the incumbent technologies/tools/platforms of the day. This benefit must be outweighed by other factors, or we'd still be writing Fortran (or drawing on cave walls). The addition of LLMs to the mix might add to incumbency bias by being trained on whatever ecosystems are most popular, but I think this will be vastly outweighed by all the other things they bring to the table. We know that one thing LLMs are already pretty impressive at is translating between programming languages. So if anything, I can see LLMs launching a new era of diversification by making it easier for programmers to justify choosing a more esoteric/interesting language for a project without worrying so much about whether they will be able to find library code for their needs, as they'll be able to translate it without so much trouble.