Language Agnostic Programming: Why you may still need code
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Throughout my career, I have had the pleasure (and sometimes the pain) of working with various programming languages and paradigms. And recently, like everyone else, I have been leveraging large language models (LLMs), and user interfaces for them like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, …, for increasing my output. Yet, I get skeptical when I read claims like “English will be the only programming language you’ll ever need”. What this really means, especially the “ever” part, is: if AI can translate our English descriptions into working code, do we still need programming languages at all?

Sure, AI does an impressive job at translating natural language into code. And sure, if you can express your intent clearly in English (or any other natural language), you can get a lot done, …

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