[thefourthchime]

In today's world, i think that English is the only programming language that people should focus on.

With the rapid rise of AI, most tasks will soon involve the management of AI models rather than writing code. However, it is still important to have a basic understanding of coding.

Introducing a new programming language at this point seems silly to me.

[dangerlibrary]

This reads like a take from a mid-level manager rationalizing that they never learned to code, and convincing themselves that they'll never need to.

[thefourthchime]

I've been a dev for 25 years. I write code every day.

[dangerlibrary]

Neat!

[rscho]

Security-critical tasks and programming language research will involve humans coding for the foreseeable future. I don't think you'd like your surgical robot to be programmed in English.

[fuzztester]

Yes, because English is a cut-put language. So instead of cutting some organ (open) (to treat it), the robot might put it in the dustbin instead, due to a speech recognition bug.

;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38157851

[Kwpolska]

Lol. The random bullshit generators can write basic code, or make auto-complete smarter, but good luck making one solve complex problems, solve obscure problems without generating bullshit (aka hallucinations) or reason about large codebases. Random bullshit generators see far too much hype and will never replace programming languages for most things, where determinism is needed.

[kaba0]

People had tales about malevolent genies for eternity. Being able to program “in English” doesn’t considerably make the task easier. The actual hard part is dealing with all the edge cases.

[criloz2]

I thought that jokes were not allowed here