[cobolexpert]

I was also thinking this some days ago. The scaffolding that static languages provide is a good fit for LLMs in general.

Interestingly, since we are talking about Go specifically, I never found that I was spending too much typing... types. Obviously more than with a Python script, but never at a level where I would consider it a problem. And now with newer Python projects using type annotations, the difference got smaller.

[zahlman]

> And now with newer Python projects using type annotations, the difference got smaller.

Just FWIW, you don't actually have to put type annotations in your own code in order to use annotated libraries.

[cobolexpert]

Indeed, but nowadays it’s common to add the annotations to claw back a bit of more powerful code linting.