ilo: A Programming Language for AI Agents, Not HumansAugust 23, 2026 Four Places to Catch a Model's Mistake BAML repairs the output, Hyperlambda gates the execution, Zero explains the failure, ilo shrinks the surface. Four languages for agents, four different moments to intervene.
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ilo: A Programming Language for AI Agents, Not HumansAugust 13, 2026 Everyone Built the Agent Language at the Same Time I measured commit activity across all 31 catalogued agent languages. Two camps are alive, one is empty, and half the field reached for the definite article.
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ilo: A Programming Language for AI Agents, Not HumansJuly 27, 2026 Error Output Is an Agent Interface One malformed ilo run produced a 42,000-token error message. For a language agents write, error output is not diagnostics, it is the retry prompt.
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ilo: A Programming Language for AI Agents, Not HumansJuly 25, 2026 Your Spec Is the Product: ilo's 44k-Token Problem For an agent language, the spec is what the model reads before writing a line. Mog capped theirs at 3,200 tokens. ilo's has grown past 40,000. One of us is wrong.
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ilo: A Programming Language for AI Agents, Not HumansJuly 23, 2026 agentlanguages.dev and the Three Camps Someone finally catalogued the languages designed for AI agents to write. The camp structure is the useful part, and ilo is not on the map yet.
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