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I think this issue will slow down as LLMs become more prominent. I find myself being naturally dissuaded from the "shiny, new thing" because it means my LLM won't have a deep set of materials to draw from.

Writing in Bevy was really hard because it was a niche language that has breaking changes every three months.

Writing in Svelte has been decent/good, but LLMs constantly prefer using v4's syntax rather than v5's runes -- even with Cursor rules and reminders.

At some point I think the tools will become so overwhelmingly part of my workflow that I'll prefer sticking with the old rather than moving to the new and losing access to well-written LLM code code.




This sounds like it could also be a terrible thing: LLMs freezing progress in languages.

It’s kind of analogous to how the entire web became a slave to SEO.


I agree. I'm concerned with the implications, too.




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