As I slowly watch more and more projects become tainted by LLM-generated code, I'm forced to look into alternatives that have explicit policies against AI. This sucks for obvious reasons but one bright side of it is that I'm exploring new tools that I otherwise would have just kept on ignoring, like #clojure. The lisp syntax was certainly not love at first sight for me (it's growing on me though), but the integration between the repl and editor is pretty great, and I love being able to write for the JVM without feeling the need to reach for an IDE. Next up on my list of languages to check out are #hare and #zig