Text to Business? Developers Still Don’t Trust Text to Code

Jared Palmer, the founder of Turborepo and former VP of AI at Vercel, believes the future of software is prompt-driven. First came “text to UI.” Then “text to app.” And now, he says, we’re heading toward something bigger: “We’re text-to-app right now. And I think we’re going to get to text-to-business in the future.” In Palmer’s vision, AI won’t just write interfaces or snippets. It will spin up entire workflows, backends, even products, all from natural language. It’s a compelling idea. But there’s a catch: developers don’t even trust the current generation of AI tools to write a form field correctly. Stack Overflow’s 2025 Developer Survey paints a stark picture. AI usage among developers is at an all-time high: 84% use or plan to use AI in their wor