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I believe high level languages will be replaced by natural human language, the same way as low level languages replaced by high level languages. It is the natural evolution of development.

On the other hand agentic teams will take over solo agents.





> I believe high level languages will be replaced by natural human languageI believe high level languages will be replaced by natural human language

Ask any human client buying dev work from a web agency how "natural language" spec works out for them.

It's not clear to me at all that "natural language" alone is ideal -- unless you also have near real time iteration of builds. If you do, then the build is a concrete manifestation of the spec, and the natural language can say "but that's not what I meant".

This allows messy natural language to vector towards the solution, "I'll know it when I see it" style.

So, natural language shaping iteratively convergent builds.


Is that your actual believe? That non-formal, natural human language explaining the task will replace formal programming?

If you zoom out, it does seem like the most natural thing - why should humans with finite memory and context better than an all knowing machine?

Things seem to be heading in the direction of using formal languages to define deterministic behaviour and natural languages to express matters of human taste.



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