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Language choice had less impact than people first assume even before LLMs in most software. A good engineering team produces good code in whatever language they happen to be using. In my own career I've worked in serious Java, Scala, Haskell, Javascript, PHP, and Python application stacks and I've seen plenty of good and bad examples.

I reckon language choice matters more at the edges of economic activity where a specific language feature really does make the difference in the end product, but most activity that is leveraging LLMs now is more generic enterprise SaaS software.

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IME Python has been very pleasant to use with types, even though they are not nearly as expressive as Haskell. I've noticed a shift in my own work where I spend more time playing with/manipulating change than I do making sure things type check. That does happen, of course, but it happens with less frequency then when I was writing Haskell by hand. During that time, I'd have stack running tests on file change and it was pretty smooth as well, but that workflow breaks down a bit with the current generation of agent harnesses we have.

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Are you one of the folks thinking of upgrading? If so, from what generation? What makes you excited? Isn't this a more interesting way to have the conversation?

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Are you familiar with ACP[0]? Through that protocol you can run claude code within zed[1]. Or perhaps I'm not understanding what you mean by using CC integration.

[0]: https://agentcommunicationprotocol.dev/introduction/welcome [1]: https://zed.dev/docs/ai/external-agents#claude-code

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I let Gemini add events to my calendar, but that's about it. All the actions in the app require explicit approval.

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