'...natural language is a remarkably poor medium for expressing the model that we want to use in our software. Every time we move away from a 3GL to create a more natural interface, we rapidly get diminishing ability to author software.'
“Is AI a Silver Bullet? — Ian Cooper - Staccato Signals”
https://ian-cooper.writeas.com/is-ai-a-silver-bullet
> But the flaw in prompts as a description of the code to be generated tends to be that natural language is a remarkably poor medium for expressing the model that we want to use in our software. Every time we move away from a 3GL to create a more natural interface, we rapidly get diminishing ability to author software.
This entire essay is excellent
