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  "title": "Could AI create a new coding language that was incredibly token efficient to work with?",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1vln3jy/could_ai_create_a_new_coding_language_that_was/",
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  "published_at": "2026-08-11T16:56:04+00:00",
  "transcript": "I asked gpt about this, and it said yes, and gave some good examples of how some python code might look like in a new language, where the language was indeciferable  to us, and very short.\n\nThis concept must surely have been considered. Would it have any merit?\n\nThe concept I imagined, was a language so compact, that it almost resembled instinct, rather than words.\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[86 upvotes] Rather than inventing an artificial language for today's Transformer, an AI could eventually design a new architecture whose internal representation itself is optimized for machine reasoning.\n\n[30 upvotes] You know how chess grandmasters can't really blunder in the first few turns of a match? They have theory and books for their openings. \n\n  \nIn a similar way, their training data is code written in Python and Javascript (and I assume there are others). The same way you might anticipate accuracy and capacity decreases if you ask an to write machine code because the training data isn't in machine code and the post training becomes nigh impossible for an engineer to validate, a novel language doesn't have much canon to... \"take inspiration\" from. You could make one, for sure. I would just be surprised if you're doing much besides reskinning a different language and insodoing spending a lot more tokens on comparison. \n\n[15 upvotes] I think there are people looking at doing reasoning in a different latent space than tokens.  I mean it's kind of weird that every layer of the network uses the same number of tokens as the input text.  ",
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