Quote of the day by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy: "The hottest new programming language is English"
THE SO WHAT
Treat “English as the interface” less as a slogan and more as a hiring constraint—prompting skill and domain literacy start to matter as much as traditional coding for many workflows. Teams that formalize prompt patterns, style guides, and review loops will compound faster than those treating LLMs as ad hoc helpers.
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