[lowwave]

>Is the main benefit that we can do all of this in natural language?

Hit it right on the nail. That is pretty much the breakthrough with LLM has being. It does allow the class of non programmer developer to be able to tasks that once was only for developers and programmers. Seems like a great fit for CEO and management as well.

[candiddevmike]

Natural language cannot describe these things as concretely, repeatedly, or verifiably as code.

[neutronicus]

Well.

Generally whatever code is produced fails utterly to describe, at all, let alone concretely / repeatedly / verifiably, "what the exec had in mind", because the exec devotes all of 10 seconds of thought to communicating it.

The actual breakthrough might be social, in that "vibe coding" is exciting enough, and its schedule flexible enough, that it can actually coax high-level decision makers into putting real thought into what they want to happen.

[nilirl]

I agree with you but I think the argument is that they can both exist together.

Code to model what is easy to model with code, and natural language for things that are fuzzy or cumbersome in code.