With LLMs you pay per token, so if you can express the same code in 1 / 10th the tokens that absolutely matters. Moreover they have a finite context window, so more concise syntax can make that more economical.
Sure but how many devs can sustain that level of efficiency around the clock and how much thought do you think their employers will give when the LLM tokens pay 1/100~1/1000th of the wage paid
I want code that is efficient, secure and cheap to produce. There is no way a human can compete with a network of agents doing that. Whatever edge you think exists is on a downward trend. Look at where we were in the days of GPT 4o vs now in terms of coding capability. Look at the marketplace for overseas contractors and the impact AI has had.
To ship what I do now would've cost a few million dollars per year in terms of the team needed to maintain it now its 1000x cheaper
I'm not making that argument are you responding to the right person?
My argument was that syntax still matters because LLMs communicate in syntax, and they pay for that per token, therefore LLMs make syntax more relevent as you can actually calculate cost to write in one language versus another.
I'm not arguing that humans can compete with a network of agents.
