alt Hacker NewsI note you're downvoted but I strongly agree. Forcing humans to speak machine language is inherently inefficient. Having them speak a language we're already comfortable with is an obvious evolution in abstraction and control. I suspect you've ruffled some feathers because speaking machine language has been a knowledge and skill gate which is rapidly becoming redundant. It doesn't feel good when one's career and skillset become much less valuable. Never-the-less, this technology is not going anywhere. Opus 5.5 already codes better than most of my developers at about 100x the speed. Architecture is still valuable, but I have no doubt that this is also going to be done better by AI soon.
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Human speech is inherently inefficient and ambiguous. Humans rely on non-verbal clues and context to distill the exact meaning of phrases, and even then the potential for miscommunication is non-negligible. It is a huge leap to assume that artificial intelligence can succeed in flawlessly divining intent from regular human speech to the point where it can generate debt-free code. And if your solution to that is to say "no, you need to issue specific instructions to guide the machine to the correct solution" then you have not removed the skill requirement, you have merely redefined the skillset.
Some people react to harsh realities and truth with negativity and the only the only things they have control of here on HN: a downvote. :)
I, personally, never downvote people I disagree with. Who am I if I don't use another perspective as an opportunity to learn and grow? I can tell that many people agree, too, because my "comment score" is still mostly neutral at the time of writing.