thanks for articulating so nicely what needs to be said in this debate. Pushing errors leftward vs rightwards is such a nice metaphor, not to mention the metap

thanks for articulating so nicely what needs to be said in this debate. Pushing errors leftward vs rightwards is such a nice metaphor, not to mention the metaphor on mental models. Also, your comment on why natural language is unable to describe the problem adequately (later in this thread), since sometimes constraints are discovered during the solution process, and otherwise, and if problems could be described adequately, thats what we call a programming language is very nice - ie, for natural language to adequately describe a problem, that becomes a formal language. Only experienced engineers who have been through failed projects will understand what you are saying, and the rest of those in the grip of the ai-mania will come to terms with it soon.