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Go is an ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

Hacker News· Aug 11, 2026· 9/10

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AUG. 11, 2026 For a while now, software engineering has undergone a profound, fundamental shift: Where we once wrote most lines of code by hand, we now ask AI coding assistants and agents to generate large swaths of code for us. But AI needs supervision, so it is we, the humans, who must read the generated code, clean it up, and verify that it does what we want it to do. And because AI has a limited view of the greater context in which the code it generates must operate, it is we who define the…

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