Imagining Programming Languages for the Agentic Era
davidcrawshaw · x · 2026-07-12
Based on the premise that 'agents write code, humans read it', the author speculates on the future of programming languages:
- Languages might become less strictly typed and lean towards a copy-paste-friendly style
- Formal verification might increasingly happen outside the code
- Testing frameworks could run inside a simulator VM to instrument syscalls/OS behaviors
- Code expressiveness might drop, but copying and syncing could become more common
The core takeaway is that as verification costs drop and agents continuously read/write codebases, traditional static designs might be replaced by cheaper 'continuous syncing + external verification' approaches.
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