The Interface Is No Longer the Code

How statistical parrots are changing the way we design and build programs

For most of computing’s history, we’ve treated the interface as something tangible: a file, a protocol, a spec you could point to. That made sense when the audience was human. A developer could read the documentation, follow the examples, and wire one system to another.

But that world is fading.

Today, much of our software is read not by people, but by ma…