Why English will never be a programming language (opens in new tab)

Learn how to respond when your CFO asks, "why are our devs still writing code?" In my last post, I argued why you should still type code by hand. If you aren't writing code, you're programming in English (or German, Chinese, etc.) and asking an LLM to translate. Businesses love that idea because a lot more people speak English than write JavaScript and will work at overseas call center rates. Read on to learn why that won't work. The spec for an email address. A precise spec is just code. Tho...