Killswitch programming language
Shares rank 133 of 163 programming languages by recommenders
Designed to frustrate LLMs, and useful as a benchmark for comparing models. Critics say agents still get around it and it is not linguistically interesting.
Designed to frustrate LLMs, and useful as a benchmark for comparing models. Critics say agents still get around it and it is not linguistically interesting.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Good benchmark for testing LLMs
“it does make for a good benchmark to see which LLMs are actually good”
Comment from 27 Sep 2026 in “Evolving programming languages in the AI era” Motivates building around LLM noise
“I don't think you can get around the fact that someone (like me) could just build around the noise you've created anyway”
Comment from 17 Oct 2026 in “I built a programming language that LLMs can't use” Playful, joking praise
“This is the greatest ever language, lol.”
Comment from 18 Oct 2026 in “I built a programming language that LLMs can't use”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Agents still easily get around it
“I don't think you can get around the fact that someone (like me) could just build around the noise you've created anyway”
Comment from 17 Oct 2026 in “I built a programming language that LLMs can't use” “it's trivial for an agent to consume these programs and produce them”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 in “I built a programming language that LLMs can't use” Not linguistically interesting
“Disappointed that the language doesn't do anything linguistically interesting.”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 in “I built a programming language that LLMs can't use” Misleading docs have no effect
“the docs lying doesn't do anything”
Comment from 19 Oct 2026 in “I built a programming language that LLMs can't use”
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See all 163 programming languages, rankedWhat people said
6 of the 8 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the docs lying doesn't do anything”
“Disappointed that the language doesn't do anything linguistically interesting.”
“it's trivial for an agent to consume these programs and produce them”
“This is the greatest ever language, lol.”
“I don't think you can get around the fact that someone (like me) could just build around the noise you've created anyway”
“it does make for a good benchmark to see which LLMs are actually good”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.