Engineer predicts human-oriented programming languages will die in the AI coding era
kieranklaassen · x · 2026-09-25
GeoffreyHuntley shares takeaways from his AI Engineer World Fair podcast appearance: programming-language convergence is going mainstream (thanks to dhh); languages that don't adapt for agents will die, since syntactic sugar for human coders is pointless when humans no longer write code. Key points: code now needs to be explainable, not readable; frontier intelligence isn't required for most tasks (some top engineers run 20 concurrent $300/year subscriptions); he hasn't hand-written code in two years and thinks Git may be end of life; porting between languages is nearly free. Personally he splits Rust for CLI/perf-critical daemons and Elixir/OTP elsewhere—agents can attach to actor processes and troubleshoot fast.
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