@glyph I've assumed well over a decade ago that eventually we'd engineer around most instances of writing code by hand. This current approach just feels like a bad way to do that. We're definitely not at the end of history, just like we weren't any of the past times engineers thought that.
I doubt we ever will.
Computers do exactly what you tell them to. If you program them in inexact terms, they'll do something other than what you actually intended, as vibe coders are now rediscovering.
Any reliable method of programming a computer must be logical, thorough, and unambiguous, and is therefore by definition a programming language. You'll never reliably program a computer in plain English, because plain English does not meet those requirements.