SMRTR ProgrammingMay 4, 2026Hacker News

Code Was Never for Machines – Until Now

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As AI agents take over code authorship, the tools and languages they use are still optimized for human readability — and that's a problem. Just as Facebook forced engineers onto Hack to gain type safety at scale, a similar shift is coming: tools designed for agents should be verbose, pedantic, and machine-parseable, not human-friendly. The readability era of programming languages may be ending.

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