In another comment, I compared the process of making computers do our will to manipulating a lever, the lever being made out of abstractions.

What Google, MS and Apple's NLP systems are doing is mapping your words to a selection of pre-prepared levers. It's simplistic in the extreme compared to the real problem of being able to create new levers.

IMO, in dismissing Dijkstra, you completely missed his point.

Don't see any levers in the article lol I have no clue of what u saying sorry

I definitely think the aspiration for natural language programming has only made things better and something we all look forward to