The Language of AI

How much longer will AI tolerate Java, Python and C#? How long before it realises (or we do) that there's a much more efficient language for producing software?

Because it doesn’t seem very efficient, if you think of it. We’re pouring masses of resources into building and using AI tools, just to have them write code that we can understand. We marvel at all the programming languages we can ask it to use, even the old or obscure ones. But what’s the real use for that?

We should already start to consider programming as a dying art. The time will come that we can no longer read code. If not, the time will come that we no longer want to. If AI can code so much faster than us, there won’t be any money to be made doing it ourselves.

So when that time comes, we might just as well ask AI to write byte code or machine language right away. Or, as an intermediate step, to use a programming language that is at least much more compatible to how AI works than how we do.

Of course, I just had to ask AI about this. And of course it praised my “fascinating idea”. It was happy enough to invent a new language on the spot that “would likely be unreadable to many developers but highly efficient for AI pipelines, which could parse, optimize, and compile it directly into execution graphs or bytecode”.

Next step: write the language definition, write a compiler, start writing code (or rather, have AI do all that). AI also came up with a name, but I was one step ahead this time. I’m calling it AIDA.