Yes, they have been trying to create 'sufficiently formal human readable text' to spec out projects; not detailed enough to execute by a computer but formal and

Yes, they have been trying to create 'sufficiently formal human readable text' to spec out projects; not detailed enough to execute by a computer but formal and precise enough so humans know exactly what they are getting. That still doesn't work at all and that is between humans. If the specs are clear enough, the act of programming is already mostly not the issue, however, they never are. I am looking forward to ML helping me writing boring code (which CoPilot already does, but again, that's not really where time/energy is spent anyway) and protect against security issues, scalability issues and all kinds of bugs (it could rewrite algo's it knows; it could recommend libraries that I should use instead of the crap I rolled myself etc).