A question about AI I've been carrying for a while

I remember being at an advisory board of big tech in 2023, close to the starting point of code generation with LLMs. Like everyone else, I was amazed. People were copying and pasting generated code, experimenting with prompts, and imagining a future where AI could become every developer's pair programmer. I was excited too. But I remember having a completely different question. Not: -"Will AI write code?" Instead, I kept wondering: -Why are we still writing code at all? Not because I think programming is going away. Not because programmers won't be needed.And certainly not because programming languages are somehow "wrong." It was a much simpler question. Programming languages have always existed to bridge a gap between humans and machines. Humans think in goals, ideas, and intentions. Machines execute deterministic operations. Programming languages became the interface between those two worlds. For decades, we've improved that interface. Assembly became higher level languages. Higher level languages became frameworks. Frameworks became libraries and abstractions that let us think less about implementation and more about solving problems. Then large language models arrived. Suddenly, we could describe what we wanted in plain language. But instead of questioning the interface itself, we mostly asked AI to become incredibly good at translating our intentions into programming languages. Today, our workflow looks something like this: Human intent - LLM - Programming language - Compiler / Runtime -Machine execution And every time I look at this pipeline, I find myself asking the same question I had back then. -Are we optimizing the wrong layer? Maybe the question isn't "Can AI write code?" Maybe the question is: -Do programming languages still need to be the primary interface between humans and computers? This isn't an entirely new idea.Researchers have explored concepts like Intentional Programming, where software is represented by its intent rather than by a specific pr