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Comment by pocketarc | original | Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011)
[−]pocketarc · 2026-11-15 Sun 15:10 UTC · link
This is the thing - when the cost of iterating and grinding compiler warnings drops to virtually 0, what new paradigms might we invent to exploit that? Rust gives us an inkling of an idea of what might be possible, but that still predates LLMs and thus still makes concession for human ergonomics. What are structures, guardrails, and patterns, that our OSs, frameworks, and toolchains can put in place, which would result in whole classes of problems going away completely, at the expense of massively increased (but mechanical, and easily automatable with a prompt) developer effort?

The next few years are going to be fun.

[−]tomaskafka · 2026-11-15 Sun 16:50 UTC · link
This would be fine grained type systems where invalid states are inexpressible.
[−]StilesCrisis · 2026-11-15 Sun 18:07 UTC · link
Both humans and LLMs struggle with slow iteration times.