I think a counterpoint to this is that SQL has a specific and well-defined meaning and it takes effort to get what you actually want right. However, communication with an AI can sometimes request a specific context or requirements but also be intentionally open-ended where we want to give the AI leeway. The great thing here is that humans _and_ AI now quite clearly understand when a sentence is non-specific, or with great importance. So, I think it’s hard to come up with a more terse or approachable competitor to the sheer flexibility of language. In a way, I think it’s a similar problem that still has engineers across the world input text commands in a terminal screen since about 80 years now.