alt Hacker Newswell you have to expand your definition of "compile" a bit. There is clearly a similarity, whether or not you want to call it the same word. Maybe it needs a neologism akin to 'transpiled'.
other than that you seem to be arguing against someone other than me. I certainly agree that agents / existing options would be chaotic hell to use this way. But I think the high-level idea has some potential, independent of that.
I fundamentally don’t think the higher level idea has any potential because of the ambiguity of natural language. And I certainly don’t think it has anything in common with compilation unless you want to stretch the definition so far as to say that engineers are compilers. It’s delegation not abstraction.
I think we’ll either get to the point where AI is so advanced it replaces the manager, the PM, the engineer, the designer, and the CEO, or we’ll keep using formal languages to specify how computers should work.