Markdown is all you need

Programmers are organizers. Of data, in databases and data structures. And of processes, in algorithms and process flows.

As AI improves, there will be increasingly many situations where our programmer instincts to inject structure work against us.

Here's a simple example you can easily agree with. "Translate this English to French" is clearly better handled by a one-size-fits-all LLM than an outdated rule-based translation system. To the point where adding rules at all probably degrades output on the whole.

But what gets interesting is when you play that trend forward a decade.

Today we have databases, process maps, object schemas. All of these can be thought of as hard-coded rules about the nouns and verbs of the world.

If the trend is that AI will find more and more human strutures detrimental to operation, does that mean all these ways of working are on the out?

In 10 years, perhaps Markdown will be all we need.