Natural languages

February, 2026

Specification; communication; computation

no, programming isn't dead

Setting the stage

It’s 2026. The LLM hype continues, and amid rounds of layoffs we’re told once again that the end is nigh: programming is dead! Programmers are obsolete! Now, in this golden age of vibe coding, the old dream has been realized: anybody can start programming just by writing plain old English (or, better, Polish) with no need to learn these finicky programming languages or fiddle about with ‘tooling’ or ‘infrastructure’ or ‘type systems’. Twitter is ablaze with tech influencers excitedly showing off the latest PhotoShop clone their agent built while they were in the bath. Conscientious developers are having existential crises over how they aren’t effectively producing software in their sleep like the Internet is telling them that they can.

October, 2021

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