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Software engineering was supposed to be artificial intelligence’s easiest win. Today companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Google have all released AI products geared specifically to coding. And a survey of nearly 5,000 technology professionals released in a report last year by Google’s DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team found that 90 percent of respondents said they were using AI at work—with more than 80 percent saying the technology had boosted their productivity.
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Even if we accept the contribution, such as it is, of conlangs to linguistic diversity, we must acknowledge that natlangs — conlangers’ slang for natural languages — provide much of the most valuable grist for the mill. John Quijada describes Ithkuil as “inspired by such obscure linguistic sources as the morpho-phonology of Abkhaz verb complexes, the moods of verbs in certain American Indian languages, the aspectual system of Niger-Kordofanian languages, the nominal case systems of Basque and the Dagestanian languages, the enclitic system of Wakashan languages, the positional orientation systems of Tzeltal and Guugu Yimidhirr [sic], the Semitic triliteral root morphology,” as well as “the hearsay and possessive categories of Suzette Elgin’s Láadan language” — another pioneering philosophically-motivated conlang. Tolkien’s much-beloved Quenya and Sindarin were themselves also heavily influenced by Finnish and Welsh.
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