What is Code

Increasingly humans delegate writing code to agents. Will there even be source code in the future? To wrestle with this question, we have to understand what code is. Unmesh Joshi sees code as having two distinct but intertwined purposes: instructions to a machine and a conceptual model of the problem domain. He explores why it’s vital to build a vocabulary to talk to the machine, how programming languages are thinking tools, and how this affects our future as we work with LLMs.

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