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Comment by AdieuToLogic

2 days ago

> I think programming is a job people don’t need to do anymore and anyone who called themselves a software engineer is now a manager of agents. Jira is the interface. Define the requirements.

That Grand Canyon sized logical leap quoted ignores a vital concept: understanding.

To "define the requirements" sufficient enough for any given feature/defect/etc. requires a degree of formality not present in prose. This already exists and is in use presently:

  Programming languages.  See 4GL's[0] and 5GL's[1].

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming_l...