@thomasjwebb

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.

@glyph