> Perhaps we would still be exclusively writing C today for new languages' code could not been synthesized as easily or conveniently.
I'm not actually sure that would be a bad thing? All the reasons that immediately come to mind to move away from C have to do with ergonomics and safety, the latter largely being a product of the former IMO. If an LLM can ingest my entire codebase and do 90% of the work to get me to the changes I need doesn't that obviate the majority of the motivation to change languages in the first place?
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If we get a completely autonomous AI it probably won't program in C (or any other human-understandable language).
If it still programs in a human readable language, that means people need to review the code, at least from times to times. And it's much easier to review modern languages than C.
I'm not actually sure that would be a bad thing? All the reasons that immediately come to mind to move away from C have to do with ergonomics and safety, the latter largely being a product of the former IMO. If an LLM can ingest my entire codebase and do 90% of the work to get me to the changes I need doesn't that obviate the majority of the motivation to change languages in the first place?