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Nothing can make a developer happier (note the # lines removed).

Nothing can make a developer happier (note the # lines removed).

I'm going to make make Rust my first AI-only language. I learned some #rust but have never built anything significant with it BY HAND....

I'm going to make make Rust my first AI-only language. I learned some #rust but have never built anything significant with it BY HAND. I intend to keep it that way, and apply CHOP (CHat Oriented Programming as coined by Steve Yegge) only with anything I produce in Rust.

We had a discussion today about the future of programming languages with LLMs becoming good.

Do we need "AI Native" languages and what would they look like? My intuition would be that Rust is actually is a good fit, for a few reasons:

1. Safety
2. Performance
3. Easy to read, but hard to write. And if the LLM does the writing, that's actually not a problem.
4. Very strongly typed, which I think benefits LLMs a lot because it gives itself a very quick feedback loop — if it compiles, it's probably correct.

I've spent the better part of the day with Claud Code writing a program that otherwise I would probably have hacked in TypeScript or Python. Instead, I had Claude Code generate Rust code and it went really well. The result feels very robust, and it is fast.

Although I don't know Rust intimately, I do assume general programming principles apply like in any other language. I can read the code the LLM writes and to challenge it with general engineering practices. On many occasions have I asked it to write tests, refactor the code, take a completely different implementation approach. I may not know the subtleties of Rust as a language, but I'm not sure that it matters.

And picking a language I can't easily write myself has proven to be a very effective strategy to fight the urge to step in and do it myself.

A shout out to any maintainer of any type of #OpenSource software. Your work is likely under appreciated, but keep at it!

A shout out to any maintainer of any type of #OpenSource software. Your work is likely under appreciated, but keep at it!