From Software Engineers to AI Word Artisans: Filip Kozera of Wordware

25 Mar 2025 · 42 min
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In this interview Sonya Huang talks with Filip Kozera, co‑founder of Wordware, about the company’s mission to turn natural English into a structured programming language for large language models (LLMs). Kozera frames English as the new "assembly language" for AI, arguing that the key challenge is adding deterministic structure (loops, conditionals, function calls) to the inherently fuzzy nature of human language. Wordware’s product is an editor that lets users build AI agents using familiar programming concepts expressed in English, and then deploy them as APIs, AI‑native workflows, or shareable components in a GitHub‑like marketplace. The conversation explores why Wordware is not a traditional no‑code tool, the importance of human "taste" and intent in guiding AI outputs, and the analogy to Excel’s democratization of data analytics. Kozera envisions a future where billions of “word artisans” or “Wordware engineers”—analytical creatives rather than traditional coders—use structured English to automate knowledge work, create products, and even influence strategic decisions. They discuss UI evolution, favoring document‑style interfaces over chat, and speculate on future GUIs involving AR or always‑on assistants. The interview concludes with a lightning round where Kozera shares hot takes on pre‑training relevance, model competition, favorite AI apps, and recommended learning resources.

Questions this video answers

Pre‑training still matters, but DeepSeek is a hype‑driven blimp that doesn’t really change the landscape.

DeepSeek used some clever techniques, but the model was trained cheaply with massive compute and isn’t fundamentally novel; the community will learn from it, but the model itself won’t be remembered long‑term.

I’m not sure – OpenAI is always bullish, Anthropic has a solid vision, and Gemini 2.0 Pro’s huge PDF context is impressive, but the field is fragmented.

Disagree – model intelligence scales logarithmically with compute, so a 2× intelligence boost can yield far more than 2× productivity.

I use Descript for content editing, Granola daily, and I’m very impressed with Gemini 2.0 Pro.

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