Every couple of years a shiny new AI development emerges and people in tech go “This is it! The next computing paradigm is here! We’ll only use natural language going forward!”. But then nothing actually changes and we continue using computers the way we always have, until the debate resurfaces a few years later.

Reminds me a bit of graphical programming. Every couple of years someone comes up with the idea of replacing textual programming with some kind of graphical interface with arrows between nested boxed of various shapes and it inevitably fails.