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What’s really amazing about vibe-coding is how people are replacing programming languages which are strictly deterministic with human speech which is highly ambiguous and expect programming to be faster and better.

I look forward to the school that will emerge, likely under the name of "Prompt Engineering", which will evolve a dialect of Basic English (or something similar) whose intentional restrictions will help folks get more-predictable results from LLMs.

I'm curious to see whether that dialect becomes as formal as I expect it to become. I'm prepared to be surprised, but if I were forced to bet my own money, it would look an awful lot like COBOL.

That's the joke.

I have to be careful, I have some Extreme Pedantry™ going on in my mentions right now