What Anders Hejlsberg thinks about code generation

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Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

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1. 13 May 2026

   Our readingForcing an AI to annotate every type would make its programs worse, not better: annotate where there is no context, and let inference do the rest.

   Their wordsbecause if you were to force AI to write a type annotation on everything, then it would probably get it wrong more often because now it has to keep track of all these types and and it and it has to just repeat itself over and over and over, right? And so, types are important where there's no context.

   ↗TypeScript, C# and Turbo Pascal with Anders Hejlsbergyoutube.com 20th of 26 in this recording