I have the opposite gut feeling about LLM's; I think they're going to break down the barriers to adopting new programming languages, since they'll lower the cost of porting code dramatically.
The code in a language's standard library is probably enough to train an LLM on the new syntax, and even if it isn't, agents now observe the compiler output and can in principle learn from it. Porting code from one language to another doesn't require deep creativity and is, barring API aesthetics, a perfectly well defined task. It will be one of the first programming tasks to be perfectly automated by LLM's.
We are going to have to use our brains again to start thinking about why we're doing any of the stuff we're doing, and what effects it will have on the world.
As a homeowner in the EU just starting an ecological home renovation, the biggest obstacle to heat pump adoption BY FAR is that you have to rip up your floors and install in-floor heating to deal with the lower warm-side operating temperature of heat pumps. At least that's what homeowners are being told here by tradesmen. Your two choices are to stay on natural gas or embark on a renovation that may end up costing as much as your entire house.
New developers are still watching Uncle Bob videos online and taking those strategies as the default for how you craft code, largely because there are not very many people since then making similarly grandiose claims about how software should be crafted and forming entire companies pushing adoption of those techniques commercially. We even had a young dev leave our company and form a startup around the idea of doing what we do, but a full "clean code" rewrite. Our software already has major performance issues, I'm not hopeful about the speed of his code after he layers on even more abstractions.
OOP isn't a problem, IF you're talking about C++ code using purely stack allocated objects, that you wrote yourself to not use any memory allocation, taking care with locks, etc...
If you're not experiencing performance issues every day despite your smartphone being "ghz class", I want your phone!
The code in a language's standard library is probably enough to train an LLM on the new syntax, and even if it isn't, agents now observe the compiler output and can in principle learn from it. Porting code from one language to another doesn't require deep creativity and is, barring API aesthetics, a perfectly well defined task. It will be one of the first programming tasks to be perfectly automated by LLM's.
We are going to have to use our brains again to start thinking about why we're doing any of the stuff we're doing, and what effects it will have on the world.