Natural language is the lazy user interface

The reason I think this is that the hard part of coding has always been humans getting clear on how they want a thing to work and then presenting this to a machine for execution. This is why we write code in programming language rather than natural language; programming language is an extension of formal logic and lets humans express with exactitud... See more

The paradox of ChatGPT: it's both a step forward beyond GUIs, because you can ask for anything not just what’s been built as a feature with a button, but also a step back, because very quickly you have to memorise obscure incantations, like the command lines GUIs replaced.