As someone with a bit of interest in programming languages (design and implementation) this was really interesting to me:

> For most people who work on programming languages, the easy part is coming up with new and better ideas about how to make programming better. The hard part is convincing anyone to actually use those ideas for real work.

Totally agree, there's only so much strangeness you can introduce in a new language[1] regardless of benefit.

But AI agents should not feel much resistance to radically new ideas in PL design. I've been thinking for a while now about how PL design will evolve post agentic AI. I think it will be very interesting to see what new ideas we can come up with to improve programming languages when we worry much less about adoption.

[1] https://steveklabnik.com/writing/the-language-strangeness-bu...