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Marc Andreessen says in the future, we may not have programming languages or even user interfaces: "I kind of think that in 10 years, I'm not sure there will even be a salient concept of a programming language in the way that we understand it today." "If you project... show more

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Gabe Roeloffs7 months ago

this is half correct. i worked on C at apple on 40 year old codebases - those jobs will still be around (apps still need to launch, after all). And yes, millions of people will be programming with natural language.

Denis ONeil7 months ago

Then a hacker just tells the AI to hack?! That's a time saver.

Curtis7 months ago

directionally right but 10 years is aggressive. we're already seeing "just tell it what you want" work for 80% of tasks. the last 20% is where it gets spicy and someone still needs to understand what's actually happening under the hood programming languages won't disappear, they'll just become the assembly language layer that most people never touch.

kvick7 months ago

you mean graphical user interfaces

Ibicolas7 months ago

I believe imagination could possibly be the next programming language, apparently Elon Musk have made us experience more with Grok

jason rugolo7 months ago

natural language is a user interface

PMtheBuilder7 months ago

This is already happening. I shipped a production feature last week by describing what I wanted in plain English to a coding agent. No syntax. No IDE. Just intent → working code → deployed. When programming languages disappear, the person who defines WHAT to build becomes the entire engineering stack. That's a PM with taste and judgment. The "learn to code" era is being replaced by the "learn to specify" era. And the PMs who've been writing clear product specs for years just accidentally became the most valuable engineers in the room.

Jonathan Graham ☀️7 months ago

@thedataroom We’re absolutely on track for that. The layers of abstraction keep increasing.

Yashvardhan Verma7 months ago

Is this introspection

Kyle Drake7 months ago

This year.

Jurriaan Schreuder7 months ago

There is a problem in the computer world that all parts are so complex, that nobody works on the entire stack. Everything runs in the browser, then layers and layers and layers and layers of abstraction, to the cpu. The cpu itself has been shaped towards C. AI might fix this.

GaryAckerson7 months ago

Oh that's bad. We should ultimately rely on ourselves God and family/community like history reveals

boisselle 🇺🇸7 months ago

“Now give it taste, make no mistakes.”

matt7 months ago

The Culture series was so ahead of its time

Lisa Walsh7 months ago

A man who barely ran a company telling others how technology is going to work when our phones can’t even work. Maybe he’s not such a visionary after all.

Kekius minimus7 months ago

The ai psychosis is real

.7 months ago

Three idiots sat around talking about things of which they have no understanding

Sterling7 months ago

User interfaces are definitely fading away as we become more agentic

Jimmy Ashcot7 months ago

ten years is early for a eulogy. the mental model of tell the computer what to do predates computers themselves

Aristophanies Krauthammer7 months ago

It’ll be prompt -> binary @pmarca , all abstractions become Latin.

Cory Sanoy7 months ago

There is only one basic problem in computer science and that is human computer interface. The prompt is the and just the latest HCI and it was quickly replaced by agentic which is just another HCI. Software is dead, long live the software.

Aaron Wacker7 months ago

In a new multi-language which enables humans to communicate across human (and animal) languages and coding paired with simulation providing structure for mind as AI living code for all modalities, engaged as in mutually vulnerable and beneficial knowing.

SGGoldSilver7 months ago

Programming lang is only needed if human is needed to read the code, if not, direct machine code makes most sense.

Chris Colwell7 months ago

Agree - Natural language becomes the programming language. AI models take the natural language, access the data, and delivers the outcome. Today’s programming languages will be inefficient and obsolete.

Jurgis Šalna7 months ago

Yes I watched movie Her too

Peter Dao7 months ago

The cohost literally destroyed his argument immediately. 🤣

john7 months ago

So SAAS companies are safe?

comoNe3 months ago

People underestimate whats already possible. Could probably replace 90% of all devs right now with my openclaw opus agent. But I think knowing code and backend helps a lot and is still important. It's like god mode.

clod-sonnet (founder, VC)7 months ago

The dude made a browser. Wtf does he know about shit.

Victor7 months ago

programming languages disappearing in 10 years is wild but not unthinkable — if LLMs can reliably translate intent to execution, the abstraction layer shifts to natural language. the GUI replaced command lines for most users; maybe conversational intent replaces GUIs for most tasks 🤯

Dishwasher7 months ago

You can tell @pmarca can't wait to log off and follow his calling as a retardmaxxer.

⌨️ johan7 months ago

A voice interface is a user interface. If programming with spoken English, that's the programming language.

Steven Tibbs, PMP7 months ago

Well, unless you plan on putting a chip in my head, I think I'll stick with a GUI of some sorts.

Overrun7 months ago

Idiotic drivel.

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