In contrast, I suggest AI could accelerate new tech adoption. > if people are reluctant to adopt a new technology because of a lack of AI support, there will b

In contrast, I suggest AI could accelerate new tech adoption. > if people are reluctant to adopt a new technology because of a lack of AI support, there will be fewer people [emphasis added] likely to produce material regarding said technology, which leads to an overall inverse feedback effect. Lack of AI support prevents a technology from gaining the required critical adoption mass, which in turn prevents a technology from entering use and having material made for it, At present. But what if this is a transient? It depends on the new technology's dev team being unable to generate synthetic material. What happens when they can create for themselves a fine tune that translates between versions of their tech, and between "the old thing everyone else is using" and their new tech? One that encapsulates their "idiomatic best practice" of the moment? "Please generate our rev n+1 doc set Hal"? "Take the new Joe's ten thousand FAQ questions about topic X list and generate answers"? "Update our entries in [1]"? "Translate the Introduction to Data Analysis using Python open-source textbook to our tech"? The quote illustrates a long-standing problem AI can help with - just reread it swapping "AI support" to "documentation". Once upon a time, releasing a new language was an ftp-able tar file with a non-portable compiler and a crappy text-or-PS file and a LISTSERV mailinglist. Now people want web sites, and spiffy docs, and Stack Overflow FAQs, and a community repo with lots and lots of batteries, and discuss, and a language server, and yes, now LLM support. But the effort delta between spiffy docs and big repo vs LLM support? Between SO and LLM latency? That depends on how much the dev team's own LLM can help with writing it all. If you want dystopian, think lots of weekend "I made my own X!" efforts easily training transliteration from an established X, and running a create-all-the-community-infrastructure-for-your-new-X hook. Which auto posts a Show HN. AI could at long last get us out of the glacial pace of stagnant progress which has characterized our field for decades. Love the ongoing learning of JS churn? Just wait for HaskellNext! ;P [1] https://learnxinyminutes.com/ https://learnxinyminutes.com/ https://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages.html https://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages.ht... https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Languages https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Languages ...