Here’s the uncomfortable truth: programming is the human act of structuring intent into executable form. Code? Code is just the latest notation we’ve invented for this ancient practice. It’s younger than democracy, calculus, and the sandwich.
And now, in 2025, we’re abandoning code for natural language prompts, acting like this is revolutionary. But we’re not moving forward. We’re completing a circle. A very expensive, carbon-intensive, venture-capital-funded circle.
