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Why Did They Build This?

2026-05-20 Science & Technology
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Top Comments (10)

@Dietskittles 2026-05-20

It’s for zero people.

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@emilebangma 2026-05-20

Zero seems like a solution looking for a problem.

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@jaden-hampton 2026-05-20

Bro definitely just prompted his AI and said "build me a fully agentic programming language" and this is what slop it produced and he didn't have the knowledge to check its validity. Coincidentally he prob got the initial idea from an AI too. Fully agentic think tank type workflow I see going on here.

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@OliverBatchelor 2026-05-20

By "agent first", they mean they asked an agent to make it first, and that's what they got - so they assume it must be what the agents want.

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@manoloestradas3693 2026-05-20

No, you guys don't get it. This guy is poisoning the training data with a crappy new language that the LLMs won't be able to differentiate between 5 other programming languages, essentially giving it the AI equivalent of a stroke.

389 11 replies
@CrumblingSoul 2026-05-20

They looked at bun slop rewriting from zig to rust and decided why cant i just slop rewrite zig

197 2 replies
@ooijaz6063 2026-05-20

I must admit that even though Vercel may not be the best at security they are very consistent - the quality of this project matches perfectly the other ones.

167 4 replies
@danielgarzaf 2026-05-20

The irony of prompters realizing that a good way to talk to a computer is having a constrained small set of keywords and instructions shouldn't be lost on us

138 5 replies
@martuscellifaria 2026-05-20

The language is called Zero because of the infinite possibilities of producing Zero Days.

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@ThePrimeTimeagen 2026-05-19

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