The Next Programming Language Is English
About this episode
The episode discusses the evolution of programming languages and the impact of AI on software development with guest Cornelia Davis.
In this episode, we're joined by Cornelia Davis , Developer Advocate at Temporal and a longtime software architect who has spent decades helping shape modern cloud-native systems. We explore how programming has evolved from assembly language to cloud-native architectures, and why AI is forcing us to rethink software development once again. Cornelia argues that natural language is becoming a new programming abstraction, while durable execution may be the missing layer that makes AI agents reliable in production. The conversation dives into probabilistic software, long-running AI agents, MCP tasks, human-in-the-loop workflows, durable timers, distributed systems, and why developers may no longer need to think about infrastructure the way they once did. Cornelia Davis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corneliadavis Demetrios: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpbrinkm Temporal: https://temporal.io Timestamps [00:00] AI Programming Abstractions [00:52] Abstraction Evolution in Programming [04:05] Text to SQL Evolution [10:08] Compensations for Natural Language [12:13] Durable MCP in AI [18:34] Streaming Session Explanation [21:31] Batch Processes with Tasks [29:29] Complexity Relocation in…
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