Natural Language Programming

Vibe coding is the new paradigm of programming. Like functional and object-oriented programming that came before it, vibe coding has foundational units which define its interactions and set its capabilities.

Paradigms and Their Primitives

Every programming paradigm is built on a fundamental primitive. That primitive shapes everything that follows—the patterns that emerge, the problems it solves well, the way programmers think.

Functional Programming: The Function

The core tenet of functional programming is the function.

First-class functions naturally lead to recursion and higher-order functions. Recursion naturally leads to immutability. Functions benefit from static typing, leading to evolved type systems.

function → first-class functions
         → recursion
         → higher-order functions
         → immutability
         → static typing
         → advanced type systems

Object-Oriented Programming: The Object

OOP is built from objects.

Objects lead to inheritance and subtyping. Inheritance leads to dynamic lookup. These paradigms are built on their most fundamental component.

object → encapsulation
       → inheritance
       → subtyping
       → polymorphism
       → dynamic dispatch

Natural Language Programming: Code Generation

Central to vibe coding is the code generation capability of language models.

Generative coding leads to dynamic execution. Dynamic execution leads to custom experience. These are the core tenets of Natural Language Programming.

code generation → dynamic execution
               → custom experience
               → ???

Code Generation

Dynamic Execution

Custom Experience

What Follows?

Implications

For Education

For Industry

For Developers

Conclusion