What Ben Vinegar thinks about LLMs
Co-founder of Modem, and before it VP of Engineering at Sentry. Joined Sentry as its founding engineer; builds hunk.dev and runs the DevTools Toronto meetup. Posts as @bentlegen.
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3 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Ben Vinegar has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingProgramming languages that LLMs do not choose, like Ruby and Zig, look dead in the long term.
Their wordsit does seem like long-term Ruby and Zig are dead. And what I mean is that if the LLMs are not choosing them over a long enough timeline, they're going to become like Louisiana French.
↗State of Agentic Coding #7 with Armin and Benyoutube.com 1st of 4 in this recording
- 6 months earlier
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Their wordsHate to say it, but the functional programmers were right. LLMs love code with explicit inputs/outputs and no side effects.
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsIMO the job increasingly becomes translating what you're thinking to a form the agents/LLMs understand. The tools will improve, sure, but I wouldn't bet on a future where they know how to read your mind.