Dev builds KillSwitch, a programming language designed so LLMs can't use it
dom96 · hn · 2026-10-18
A developer has created KillSwitch Lang, a programming language deliberately designed to be unusable by LLMs — a contrarian take in an era where languages increasingly cater to AI coding assistants. The post explains the design choices that make the language hard for models to generate and reason about, sparking Hacker News discussion on whether code can truly be made machine-hostile and what that means for human-vs-model readability.
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