Programming Languages Need a Redesign for the Agentic Era
davidcrawshaw · x · 2026-07-11
The author argues that programming language design must be rethought for the era of agent-based development.
The core takeaway is that language design and model training can no longer be treated as separate domains. To build languages better suited for agent collaboration, reasoning, and automated execution, we must simultaneously consider how models learn and leverage these structures.
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