The Language Your AI Agent Secretly Wishes You’d Use
Every programming language claims to be productive. But in 2026, there’s a new benchmark that matters: how well does an LLM write code in your language?
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Every programming language claims to be productive. But in 2026, there’s a new benchmark that matters: how well does an LLM write code in your language?
So I’ve been working on this project called Stegodon for a while now, and I figured it’s time to actually write about it instead of just quietly pushing commits to GitHub at 2 AM.
For the past weeks I’ve been deep in the weeds of building stegodon, my tiny, terminal-first microblog server. You write posts entirely over SSH in a TUI, hit Ctrl+S, and they appear as ActivityPub Notes in the Fediverse.
TL;DR: I ran fwupdmgr update --offline because the normal update couldn’t find a file. My machine fell into an infinite “Upgrade complete. Autoremoving old packages…” → reboot loop. I spelunked through TTYs, LUKS, LVM, chroot, dpkg --configure -a, update-initramfs, bootctl, and a /dev/pts heckle. The real culprit? A leftover systemd offline-update marker: /system-update. Deleting it ended the…