[CamperBob2]

English. "Write me a Python function or program that does X, Y, and Z on U and V using W." That will be the inevitable outcome of current trends, where relatively-primitive AI tools are used to write slightly more sophisticated code than would otherwise be written, which in turn is used to create slightly less-primitive AI tools.

For example, I just cut-and-pasted the author's own cri de coeur into Claude: https://claude.ai/share/1d750315-bffa-434b-a7e8-fb4d739ac89a Presumably at least one of the vectorized versions it replied with will work, although none is identical to the author's version.

When this cycle ends, high-level programs and functions will be as incomprehensible to most mainstream developers as assembly is today. Today's specs are tomorrow's programs.

Not a bad thing, really. And overdue, as the article makes all too clear. But the transition will be a dizzying one, with plenty of collateral disruption along the way.