English is now a programming language and I have mixed feelings

A few years ago if you said "just describe what you want and the computer will do it" — that was science fiction. Now it's Tuesday. I spent last week building 40 browser-based developer tools. Half...

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English is now a programming language and I have mixed feelings

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A few years ago if you said "just describe what you want and the computer will do it" — that was science fiction. Now it's Tuesday. I spent last week building 40 browser-based developer tools. Half of them I described in plain English to Claude Code and it just... built them. Components, types, tests, the lot. The weird part isn't that it works. It's how it feels. There's this guilt developers know — the "am I even really coding?" feeling. Stack Overflow used to trigger it. AI just cranks it to 11. But here's what I actually noticed: the thinking didn't go away. It moved. Less time on "how do I type this correctly". More time on "is this the right thing to build at all". The English-as-code thing is real. But it's less like replacing programming and more like the abstractions keep going up. Assembly → C → Python → now this. Each step felt like cheating to someone. Where do you draw the line between "using tools" and "not really coding"? Or is that even the right question?

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