> How many programmer hours have been wasted because of trivial coding errors?

Historically probably quite a lot, but with a decent editor and tools like gofmt that became popular in the past 10 years I'd say syntax is just not a problem any more. I can definitely recall the frustration of a missing closing bracket in HTML in the 90s, but nowadays people can turn out perfectly syntactically correct code on day 1 of a new language.

That’s fair. Not to shift the goal post but my intuition has shifted recently as to what I’d consider a “trivial” problem. API details, off-by-one errors, and other issues like that are what I’d lump into that category.

Easy way to say it is that source code requires perfection, whereas pseudo-code takes the pressure off of that last 10%, and IMO that could have significant benefits for cognitive load if not latency.

Still all hypothetical, and something I’m actively experimenting with. Not a hill I’m gonna die on, but it’s super fun to play and imagine what might be possible.