But I also think that if a maintainer asks you to jump before submitting a PR, you politely ask, “how high?”
Programming languages were a nice abstraction to accommodate our inability to comprehend complexity - current day LLMs do not have the same limitations as us.
The uncomfortable part will be what happens to PRs and other human-in-the-loop checks. It’s worthwhile to consider that not too far into the future, we might not be debugging code anymore - we’ll be debugging the AI itself. That’s a whole different problem space that will need an entirely new class of solutions and tools.
Natural language can be specific, but it requires far too many words. `map (+ 1) xs` is far shorter to write than "return a list of elements by applying a function that adds one to its argument to each element of xs and collecting the results in a separate list", or similar.
I believe it won’t be long before we have exceptional “programmers” who have mastered the art of vibe coding. If that does become the de facto standard for 80% programming done, then it’s not a long stretch from there that we might skip programming languages altogether. I’m simply suggesting that if you’re not going to examine the code, perhaps someone will eliminate that additional layer or step altogether, and we might be pleasantly surprised by the final result.