The Last Syntax
How AI-assisted programming is (not) just another step in human-machine communication
by Hans-Peter Schmidt
Talking to machines started with binary code. Later, coded computer languages like Basic and Pascal were interpreted by the computer so that the machine could understand. Python and Java got closer to human language but were still code. Today, we speak and the machine writes the code itself. Sixty years of programming history show that this is not the disruption it appears to be — but its consequences reach...
