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>>tymsca+(OP)
One thing im wondering with the LLM age we seem to be entering: is there value in picking up a language like this if theres not going to be a corpus of training data for an LLM to learn from? Id like to invest the time to learn Gleam, but I treat a language as a tool, or a means to an end. I feel like more and more I'm reaching for the tool to get the job done most easily, which are languages that LLMs seem to gel with.

>>marlie+f5
the flip side of that, right now ai coding agents try to generate code, not software.

it seems semi intuitive to me that a typesafe, functional programming language with referential transparency would be ideal if you could decompose a program to small components and code those.

once you have a referentially transparent function with input/out tests you can spin on that forever until its solved and then be sure that it works.