I think this essay has aged pretty well and remains pretty spot on.
Some people will push back that agent development is "natural language programming" but I don't think that's right. I think in that case the agent is the one programming, and the programming still always happens in a deterministic language like Rust/Python/Typescript/etc. Maybe that'll change, but to me at least the other way would be a disaster.
The best exception I know of though, is definitely the Inform 7 language which is for writing text adventures[0]. It has a lot of fans, and I've never gone deep with it, but seems to do a pretty elegant job or marrying up natural language and programming together in a unique way.
Either way, definitely a must-check-out for any language-geeks interested in natural language programming.
Some people will push back that agent development is "natural language programming" but I don't think that's right. I think in that case the agent is the one programming, and the programming still always happens in a deterministic language like Rust/Python/Typescript/etc. Maybe that'll change, but to me at least the other way would be a disaster.
The best exception I know of though, is definitely the Inform 7 language which is for writing text adventures[0]. It has a lot of fans, and I've never gone deep with it, but seems to do a pretty elegant job or marrying up natural language and programming together in a unique way.
Either way, definitely a must-check-out for any language-geeks interested in natural language programming.
[0] https://ganelson.github.io/inform-website/