Gaming: 'slay, Bestie' Just Some Of The Gen Z Slang Used In Programming...
I've already used my quota for Gen Z slang for the year in the headline—as a 33-year-old man, I'll keep things age-appropriate from here on out. And nothing has made me feel older than this programming language my colleague just put me onto that exclusively uses Gen Z slang and was dreamt up by Anthropic's AI, Claude.
Called cursed, it's described as "the only compiled language that lets you code with 'sus', 'slay', and 'vibez' while achieving near-c performance."
It's a creation of Geoffrey Huntley, who left Claude running for months in a bash loop he calls 'Ralph', aka Ralph Wiggum from The Simpsons, with only a single prompt as guidance.
"Hey, can you make me a programming language like Golang but all the lexical keywords are swapped so they're Gen Z slang?"
The AI worked away at it for three months, really thought about it, probably using a large amount of the Earth's dwindling resources, and arrived at this despicable creation in September, 2025. A truly cursed programming language.
I ran Claude in a loop for 3 months and created a brand new "GenZ" programming language. It's called @cursedlang. v0.0.1 is now available, and the website is ready to go. Details below! pic.twitter.com/Ku5kbWMRgRSeptember 9, 2025
This was not, I imagine, what Microsoft's CEO had in mind when he prompted those with the keys to artificial intelligence to use it for "something useful" before they lost "social permission" to burn huge amounts of precious energy on it. This is the exact opposite of that, but also pretty representative of much of what AI is often used for today.
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"The programming language is called 'cursed'," Huntley writes in a blog post. "It's cursed in its lexical structure, it's cursed in how it was built, it's cursed that this is possible, it's cursed in how cheap this was, and it's cursed through how many times I've sworn at Claude."
I feel like yeet, nah, and ghosted are debatable Gen Z slang, but you lot can claim the rest.
Source: PC Gamer
