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by lmm 1355 days ago
Writing a program is still the most efficient way to explain a lot of things, even to another human - I've been in plenty of meetings where hours of explaination and examples only added confusion, whereas 20 minutes of pseudocode or 5 minutes of real code made it very clear what we were talking about.

If you just want to do the same thing you currenty do but faster, AI will handle that. But modelling a business process properly and making it explicit will still bring huge value to those who care to put the effort in.

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This is a great point. Look at how many IETF standards contain pseudocode.

Also, in mathematics, many proofs contain a decision procedure or a parametric algorithm for constructing a counterexample.