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lokhura 40 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it

>Generally it’s possible to do that in English much more tersely than it is in code.

I really doubt this is the case for any decent amount of complexity. English is ambiguous. Programming languages exist because we don't want this ambiguity from natural languages. A sufficiently descriptive spec written in English is barely indistinguishable from just code. We've come full circle.

bartread 40 days ago [–]

It’s the case because English is wildly more expressive than many commonly used programming languages.

And especially when you take into account the mess of front end web development and tooling.

MarsIronPI 40 days ago | [–]

Paul Graham might say if that's the case then you need a more expressive language.

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