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 "We'll be able to write what we want in English and AI will turn it into a working app!"

Ooh, heard this one before!

AppleScript demonstrates that if you make a programming language with an English-like syntax, it leads to such clarity, precision and developer productivity that when Apple added JavaScript as an alternative, nobody really saw any benefit.

The "CEO asks the LLM genie for a fully written app but a misplaced adjective leads to a huge security exploit" era will be just great.