@ianbicking > From a practical standpoint, this strengthens my worries about LLM assistants entrenching popular languages and tools. If ChatGPT, Bing, and similar tools become an essential part of a programmer's arsenal, it's hard to imagine a new language—or even a new framework—taking off if the models can't use them. Yet, if the language or framework doesn't take off, the models will never learn how to use it for lack of training data.

This is very sad. The network effects get even more networky and we're getting stuck more deeply in some local optima