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That's a very 2023 comment but I have a feeling it won't hold up. Yes natural language communication is and has been a very undervalued skill in software development. LLMs have made the skill even more valuable, but in the end your solution is being written in one or more languages with additional features that are absent from natural languages and a programmer still needs to understand what they are building, in all of its complexity, in order to build solutions of real value. I don't see that changing for a little while. In the meantime, programmers will become better natural language communicators.


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