Assuming that LLMs hamper gaining true experience and mastery of a language, and further assuming that LLMs will play a significant part in development (especially for juniors)... it seems to me that new programming languages and frameworks will have a significantly greater hurdle to overcome going forward, compared to what they faced in the past.

A fork in the road with a two-sign post in the middle. To the left is "popular languages" with a paved road and a modern skyscraper-laced city in the background, to the right is "Semi-popular languages" with a sun-baked clay road lined with distortion mirrors.
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[–] 3 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

I don't think this is linearly correlated. Despite being called a "Language Model", it does not mean it processes language as humans do. If an LLM is good at supporting you with a programming language mainly depends on the amount of available training data.

Let's take esoteric languages as an example - there are languages that only work via weird Unicode symbols or other cryptic commands. A human will have a hard time to understand that language, the LLM may not have any problem at all to give working comprehensive examples (as in will be useful).

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