'Learn to code' is dead. 'Talk to code' is about to take over the world.

'Learn to code' is dead. 'Talk to code' is about to take over the world.

When a new technology is developed, we initially try to adapt it to existing patterns. The programmer writes code. The installer runs scripts. The researcher indexes documents in a database to later retrieve them. These habits feel natural; then something shifts, and the habits turn out to have been contingent and temporary. They were, like many arrangements we mistake as permanent, just what we happened to be doing at the time. Coding agents wi…