As someone who has made a career of programming language design, I definitely have moments of existential dread about the rise of LLMs. I started coding in 5th grade on an x861 that ran at 5MHz, had something like a 5MB hard-disk and 512K of RAM2. Computers were really, really different back then. But honestly, programming wasn’t. For all the advances in IDEs and programming languages and so forth, the basic act of entering code into a file has remained surprisingly constant3 – right up until a few years ago, when everything kinda turned on its head. That’s been exciting and empowering at times4 but also scary and disorienting. Will my skills in programming matter? What about my skills in programming language design (such as they are)? This blog post is my attempt to answer those questions.
What agents mean for Rust (and vice versa)
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- You might also enjoy the slides from the talk I gave at IWACO, IWACO and Rust: hidden links revealed, which was a bit more of a retrospective (no soundtrack for those, though).
- Jack Huey presented on the Rust Vision Doc and, quite to my surprise, Steve Klabnik and Dorian Scheidt presented “LLMs as Collaborators in Language Specification and Design”, talking about their process in building out Rue.
- The point of this post is (1) to argue for why that is and then (2) to discuss what we might change about Rust to make it work even better.
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