This is the second "I built a programming language" post in a day, and if I post the one I'm building, we can have a three-day streak :D They thought AI meant personal software, but it also means personal programming languages!
In all seriousness, this is great, and why not? As the post said, what once took months now takes weeks. You can experiment and see what works. For me, I started off building a web/API framework with certain correctness built in, and kept hitting the same wall: the guarantees I wanted (structured error handling, API contracts, making invalid states unrepresentable) really belonged at the language level, not bolted onto a framework. A few Claude Code sessions later, I had a spec, then a tree-sitter implementation, then a VM/JIT... something that, given my sandwich-generation-ness, I never would have done a few months ago.
I was looking for a Slimelight reference in the article, too. The world's longest-running Goth nightclub, it used to be BYOB, which made it a cheap night out. I still have my membership card.
Beyond the chatbot's error and the legal approach they took, this bad PR could have been avoided by any manager in the chain doing the right thing by overriding things and just giving him the bereavement fare (and then fixing the bot/updating the policy).
In all seriousness, this is great, and why not? As the post said, what once took months now takes weeks. You can experiment and see what works. For me, I started off building a web/API framework with certain correctness built in, and kept hitting the same wall: the guarantees I wanted (structured error handling, API contracts, making invalid states unrepresentable) really belonged at the language level, not bolted onto a framework. A few Claude Code sessions later, I had a spec, then a tree-sitter implementation, then a VM/JIT... something that, given my sandwich-generation-ness, I never would have done a few months ago.