For the last 50 years, programming language evolution has had one single north star: Human Ergonomics. We design syntax sugar, optional typing, and complex implicit behaviors to make code faster to write and easier for human brains to read.
But we are ignoring the elephant in the repository.
With autonomous platforms like OpenHands, GitHub Copilot workspace, and custom multi-agent reasoning loops writing, refactoring, and deploying code, the primary consumer of source code is radically changing. We aren’t just writing code for our peers anymore; we are writing code that AI agents must ingest, parse, and modify.
It’s time to face a contrarian truth: New language features must be optimized for AI processing, not human typing convenience.
1. Syntax Sugar is Token Poison
