I think the industry is moving to English as the programming language, and specifications-context-tdd as the framework for building software.

Many find it distasteful, and many finding liberating. I think it's broadly correlates with how they feel about expressing themselves in english vs say C++.

As a side question, is there anyone who's using LLMs primarily in non-english mode to program? I suspect there's quite a few people using mandarin, but can someone share first-hand account.

I wonder how well Mandarin works for LLM-based programming. On one hand, it's very token efficient as Mandarin script is very dense in meaning. On the other, I suppose this can increase ambiguity.

I'm using it 50% English (personal projects)/50% Polish (workplace; reasons being agents.md / team is not that english proficient) and honestly I haven't seen much difference in the output/ambiguity.

Polish prompts tend to be shorter due to the language having a lot of verb forms/conjugations, the only "bad" thing for me is that when it's saying "it broke" it tends to use uncanny / blunt words that make me sometimes laugh.

I agree, and those are still too focused on code generation for specific languages are fighting the last war.

It is the revenge of UML modeling.

Eventually it will get good enough that what comes out of agent work, is a matter of formal specification.

Assuming that code is actually needed and cannot be achieved as pure agent orchestration workflows.

I'm using it in english / albanian. Not much difference really. Impressive.