Ciro Santilli
OurBigBook.comWe use the term "automatic programming" to mean "generating code from natural language".
The ultimate high level of which is of course to program with:which is basically the goal of artificial general intelligence, especially according to The Employment Test definition of AGI.
computer, make money
The term has not always had that sense:sums it up.
automatic programming has always been a euphemism for programming in a higher-level language than was then available to the programmer
But in the current AI boom, this is the sense that matters, so that's what we will go with.
Bibliography: