Angelina YangFounder and Host, TwoSetAI · AI builder for visibility and discoverability

The Next Level of Abstraction Is English

9 Sept 2026 · 0 min

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In this brief monologue, the speaker argues that software engineering has continually reinvented itself by moving to higher levels of abstraction—starting from assembly language, then to C, later to Python, and now to large language models (LLMs). The claim is that LLMs allow developers to program using natural language, making English the next major abstraction layer. This shift reflects a broader trend where engineers are effectively “inventing themselves out of a job” as each new abstraction reduces the need for low‑level coding.

Software engineering is the profession that has basically made a— throughout its entire history has been inventing itself out of a job. We start with assembly, then we invent C, but no C++ goes in and is viewing the individual assembly things. It's just not worth their time. And that happened again going to Python, and then it happens again going to LLMs. And so we're basically in that phase where the next level of abstraction is English.