As a side note, I previously commented somewhere else that, if a language has a terse way and a verbose way to do the same thing, preferring the terse way might be more economical because it saves bunch of tokens for the LLM. But for humans to review the code, we may need some mechanism to translate the code from terse way to the verbose way, if the human has a hard time understanding the terse code.

> If you were starting a business for a great software idea, with your own savings on the line, would you hire 10 AI hostile programmers to implement the idea or 2 AI friendly people and get them some subscriptions to the top models? Remember: if it doesn't come together, it's YOUR money on the line.

I know quite a few non-technical people that started vibe-coding this year and got good results for their ideas. What language did they use? They just asked the AI what language or tool would be best for the idea, then followed the AI's suggestions. All the setup, configuration etc. were done by the AI. They learned a bunch of things along the way, but their main focus is still on the big picture idea, not the technical details. After the project is done, they are still not technical experts, but at least they have something to run with in the real world.

> we may need some mechanism to translate the code from terse way to the verbose way

I completely agree. Nothing says humans need to read in exactly the syntax the model wrote. We could give the model a typed lisp, or forth, or rebol, or whatever works best, and it could be formatted into LaTeX with infix operators for the humans.

This was true before LLMs though. So many people love curlies or love indentation, love 2 spaces or 4 spaces. Programmers have been married to text files as the authoritative source, using grep to search, patches to update. The expressions could be rows in a database. Then finding and formatting are done as views from that.

> I know quite a few non-technical people that started vibe-coding this year and got good results for their ideas.

Me too, but a few of them hit limits. A couple months ago, I'd say vibe coding fell apart at 2k loc or something. It goes further now, but I think it's fragile after you take the "one shot prompt" and try to make significant changes once the pattern is set. There's probably a way to push these limits much further out so that non-programmers can do more, focusing on what they care about, and not bogged down in programming details they don't.