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Felix Barbalet
Personal blog · felixbarbalet.com · on HN as xlfeaieconomicsprogramming
Felix Barbalet writes Context is everything, a personal blog at felixbarbalet.com about ai, economics and programming. Since 2026, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times, most often “The economics of language choice in the LLM area”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
An essay arguing that Clojure is the simple language best suited to AI agents and calling out Go for lacking the simplicity that matters for LLMs. Commenters link it when comparing programming languages for agents.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Reflections on engineering data-centric systems
Most-linked posts?
- The economics of language choice in the LLM area6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2026-03-01
What Hacker News says?
There’s also a “why clojure is the best langage for Ai” floating around (and it specifically dumps on go): https://felixbarbalet.com/simple-made-inevitable-the-economi...
Comment linking /simple-made-inevitable-the-economics-of-language-choice-in-the-llm-era/
on “Go is the best language for agents”Submitted The economics of language choice in the LLM area as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI happen to just stumble across this article https://felixbarbalet.com/simple-made-inevitable-the-economi... extolling the virtues of Clojure. It specifically calls out Go for not being simple in the ways that matter for LLMs. I've no idea myself, I just thought it was interesting for comparison.
Comment linking /simple-made-inevitable-the-economics-of-language-choice-in-the-llm-era/
on “Go is the best language for agents”Submitted Simple Made Inevitable: The Economics of Language Choice in the LLM Era as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI happen to just stumble across this article https://felixbarbalet.com/simple-made-inevitable-the-economi... extolling the virtues of Clojure. It specifically calls out Go for not being simple in the ways that matter for LLMs. I've no idea myself, I just thought it was interesting for comparison.
Comment linking /simple-made-inevitable-the-economics-of-language-choice-in-the-llm-era/
on “Go is the best language for agents”Submitted Familiarity is the enemy: On why Enterprise systems have failed for 60 years as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Capital Without Labour: A Founder's Guide to the Changing VC Equation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple Made Inevitable: The Economics of Language Choice in the LLM Era as a story · 1 points
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