“Is AI a Silver Bullet? — Ian Cooper - Staccato Signals”

https://ian-cooper.writeas.com/is-ai-a-silver-bullet

> But the flaw in prompts as a description of the code to be generated tends to be that natural language is a remarkably poor medium for expressing the model that we want to use in our software. Every time we move away from a 3GL to create a more natural interface, we rapidly get diminishing ability to author software.

This entire essay is excellent 

 '...natural language is a remarkably poor medium for expressing the model that we want to use in our software. Every time we move away from a 3GL to create a more natural interface, we rapidly get diminishing ability to author software.' 

 Natural language is a great medium for expressing computational concepts, you just have to be hyper-literal and borderline autistic 

 Disagree with this part. Natural language + visual aids = plenty. We gonna be drawing diagrams I think