Designing a Programming Language for the AI Era

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← Back to Blog Designing a Programming Language for the AI Era What makes a programming language effective when AI agents write, test, and review code, and why being optimized for WebAssembly is being optimized for AI. Justin Fagnani September 29, 2026 · 15 min read Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Software engineering is rapidly adapting to an era where coding agents write, edit, test, and review large parts of our codebases, in some cases the vast majority of it. There are lots of opinions, experiments, and new tools up and down the software development stack from version control, IDEs, agent coordinators, sandboxes and VMs, debugging, and of course: programming languages.

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▪← Back to Blog Designing a Programming Language for the AI Era What makes a programming language effective when AI agents write, test, and review code, and why being optimized for WebAssembly is being optimized for AI.
▪Justin Fagnani September 29, 2026 · 15 min read Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Software engineering is rapidly adapting to an era where coding agents write, edit, test, and review large parts of our codebases, in some cases the vast maj
▪There are lots of opinions, experiments, and new tools up and down the software development stack from version control, IDEs, agent coordinators, sandboxes and VMs, debugging, and of course: programming languages.

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