I enjoy the idea a lot, that one day people won't need to program their machines anymore but can discuss with them what they actually want. Yes, there will stil

I enjoy the idea a lot, that one day people won't need to program their machines anymore but can discuss with them what they actually want. Yes, there will still be the need for the good old coding (maybe even more, because someone needs to write these eloquent programs, right?). And yes, the resulting programs of these discussions will be a lot more unclear (and thus prone to all kinds of bugs). But for what does your grandfather need a 100% correct program? He needs some food (no matter if carrots or beans), some clean clothes (no matter if the red or the blue shirt) and someone who reminds him to take his pills and tell him how the weather tomorrow maybe could be. I wonder why we don't read more about these topics. Not just because of the opportunities for less educated people and the chance to automate repeatable tasks we can't repeat just yet. There are so many things where we are actually a lot more flexible then we think. For example when I prototype my new android game, I don't really care what way finding routines the game characters use. In the beginning I just want to put together something really fast to see if my game idea is worth anything. I would really like an IDE to just fill in the empty spots itself with anything that might work. And after time, using my more concrete programming input and the data from the test runs that every coder does while developing the IDE could improve the code itself. I imagine an IDE that I can tell "I want to code a computergame. It should be rougelike. Very rougelike computergames are rouge, nethack, ADOM. A little rougelike computergames are Diablo, Dungean Siege, Baldurs Gate, Oblivion, World of Warcraft. Not rougelike computergames are Counter Strike, Doom, Sim City. Not computergames are VIM, Firefox, Word. Make prototype!"