Steve Troughton-SmithRE: https://mastodon.social/@nicoreese/116206247377691235
(And because there's no source material — 'good SwiftUI apps' — for LLMs to train on, they can't create any. Feels like a downward doom spiral to me)
MarkV@stroughtonsmith Taking it a step further - does this mean that basically *ANY* new programming language that tries to launch post-LLMs will immediately enter the death spiral because the lack of source material puts them at an insurmountable disadvantage?
So programming languages from here on out are frozen pretty much forever? 🤔
@markv that feels like a very real and legit concern
Dave Frampton@markv @stroughtonsmith It’s not just programming languages too. All related tech becomes a lot harder to change or introduce with that weight of AI model training holding it back. All tech that is except the tech that doesn’t rely on AI, that’s free to move as fast as ever.
Leandro Favarin@markv @stroughtonsmith newer models will have more recent knowledge cutoffs. Also, LLMs will use the (few) examples they find and are good at testing their own output to cover for their gaps. See https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/9/not-so-boring/