21 Reasons AI Agents Love Gleam
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Clickbait aside, we really do think agents love Gleam.
Fair warning: this post contains some opinions that are going to be controversial and may not age well. Here be dragons.
AI coding agents like Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and Google Gemini can write code, run it, read the errors, and try again. That loop is the whole game. The faster and more informative that loop is, the more useful the agent becomes. After building Curling IO Version 3 in Gleam alongside AI coding agents, I'm convinced Gleam is the best language for this workflow. Agents don't write better Gleam - there's less training data. But Gleam's compiler lets agents self-correct without waiting for a human.