About a year ago, I made a prediction: that the rise of LLMs like ChatGPT would lead to fewer programming languages over time. If AI agents can translate high-level instructions into code, then language complexity becomes an implementation detail rather than a developer concern.

Fast forward to today, with tools like Cursor and Windsurf, and we’re closer to that reality. For example, I can ask Cursor to “build a weather app in React with Redux” and get a runnable scaffold without touching the docs. In a matter of seconds.

So far, we haven’t seen any significant drop in the number of languages. But I think the original intuition holds: we’re moving toward a world where the choice of language matters less because the AI abstracts it away. Hence: vibe coding.