[iammyIP]

Since the c language is already a human readable abstraction away from the actual hardware instructions, which then again are abstractions on what actually happens on the chip with the transistors and electrons, you could argue that programming in c is already pretty much 'talking to the computer human-style'.

As others said the use of frameworks and even higher level scripting languages with an ide is already a dumb-ai kind of human-friendly conversation with the machine.

A problem with driving this further down the road like the article suggests could be, that if i wanted to talk to the machine like i talk with other persons, the natural language used in this case migh not be very well suited to express what i actually want. I would need special definitions and terminology, and in some cases a general description would not suffice, so the need for precision in expression might stay.

The actual dialogue with the machine then might last as along as a programmer would have needed to program it. I could see how this might work for very simple programs (like for some uber-app which is not much more than a wrapper for a telephone call to the taxi central), but inherent complexity that other programs need cannot be simplified away by switching the language to a conversational chit chat level.