[nikki93]

It depends also very much on the individual psychology and experience of the human in question that is using the tool to develop, and the kind of thing that is being developed. For example, to lay out the gui in a gui tool, you'd rather locate it visually, while to specify the logic, you do it now textually. The reason the second is textual is because previous experiences made it so that specifying logic textually is easy for you (the experience here being practicing programming).

The question is, when someone is thinking "this is what my app should do," what is the model of the "this" inside their mind? What form does it have, and can we make computers be able to read something closer to that form, rather than having the human have to add more layers on that form before handing it to the computer.

If development becomes a conversation between the computer and the human, it might be more interesting, satisfying, fun and spawn some directions that the human would not have come to so quickly with earlier forms of development tools. Thus, this whole thing being about a search for something 'cool and fun' rather than being like 'X is bad, Y is a solution,' like a kid walking out in his/her backyard and looking for cool things with not much preconceived notion of what to look for. Exploration. Not replacing programming everywhere or things like, that, but "hey, here's a thing we made, why don't you try it and see if you like it."