Will coding agents invent their own formal languages, with natural language as the metalanguage?
jmugan · x · 2026-09-13
A thought piece: as coding agents use tools, skills and start inventing their own, they may blend formal and natural language along a continuum from precise-but-brittle to open-and-flexible. LLM agents may get good at drifting toward formal expression, especially for settling meaning with other agents, while natural language becomes the metalanguage they use to invent, critique, explain and modify their formal languages.
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