Agent-First Languages: Why AI Needs New Programming Languages We Never Saw Coming

A Language For Agents: Why New Programming Languages Are Inevitable in the Age of AI What makes a programming language “good” for AI agents, and why does that challenge everything we thought we knew about language design? The rise of AI agents as primary code producers is forcing us to reconsider fundamental assumptions about programming languages. After a year of working with agents across different languages and observing their failure modes, I’ve come to believe that we are on the cusp of a new wave of language innovation—one driven not by human ergonomics alone, but by how machines comprehend, generate, …