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> Otherwise the result is just legacy coding in a new programming language.

And this is why starting with COBOL and through various implementations of CASE tools, "software through pictures" or flowcharts or UML, etc, which were supposed to let business SMEs write software without needing programmers, have all failed to achieve that goal.

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While they failed to achieve the goal outright, I'd argue that each is a concrete step towards it. The languages we have today are more productive than the languages we had decades ago.

I think it's an open question of whether we achieve the holy grail language as the submission describes. My guess is that we inch towards the submission's direction, even if we never achieve it. It won't surprise me if new languages take LLMs into account just like some languages now take the IDE experience into account.

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