idk if it is serious or not, but it is what I saw in indeed newsletter today.
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Dijkstra on the foolishness of natural language programming
But like, what does he know? He wasn’t an AI-native vibe orchestrator.
Thx for sharing this . Really hope people read it.
All he made was some dinky algorithm. Google Bard could do that in three minutes flat smh.
See, Dijkstra was talking about people trying to create programs in natural language. He didn't say not to use your natural language to hire someone else to make a formal program. This is people using natural language to hire an LLM to make a formal program, and asking LLMs is like asking people, so it's Dijkstra-approved.
This guy was writing in the year x86 was first introduced, and I still feel like I see this attitude around.
(He manages to shoehorn in a "kids these days" paragraph too, though)