Perhaps not Boring Technology after all
BlogSimon WillisonMar 9, 2026
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Two years ago LLMs pushed developers toward popular languages because training data was richer. Simon argues this is no longer true — modern coding agents consume docs via 'uvx tool --help' and work fine with brand new, obscure libraries. The 'boring technology' argument may be dead.
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Sponsored by: Honeycomb — AI agents behave unpredictably. Get the context you need to debug what actually happened. Read the blog A recurring concern I’ve seen regarding LLMs for programming is that they will push our technology choices towards the tools that are best represented in their training…
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