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If AI can turn a request directly into instructions a chip understands, what is left for a human to review? Chris Romeo, Izar Tarandach, and Matt Coles debate whether readable source code remains essential when agents do the programming. Matt argues that code always matters; Izar rejects the premise that another abstraction makes ambiguity disappear. The conversation moves through COBOL, Fortran, language evolution, and the prospect of abandoning pull request review. They also consider optimi...
