A 1996 book predicted the AI coding workflow nearly 25 years early
chaitjo · x · 2026-07-27
- A repost highlights a 1996 book excerpt predicting a future where the person who understands the problem would directly write the code, without an intermediate programming-language expert.
- The quote says this was too far off to help immediately, but expects such practice to become nearly universal by 2020.
- The joke in the repost is that the prediction reads like an early description of today’s AI-assisted coding workflow.
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