The amount of English required to be productive is likely much less than the ~900 words in ASD-STE100.

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• There is no threshold of vocabulary to cross before speaking begins; the change is a decision, not a level reached. BLBenny Lewisby 12 Oct 2012
• The hard part of speaking from the start is not the gaps in what you know but making peace with not knowing the simplest words. BLBenny Lewisby 12 Oct 2012
• Letting more people write software in natural language does not reduce the work; it snowballs the amount of software that has to be maintained. THThePrimeagen22 Mar 2025
• Large language models could still plateau, and that possibility should be held open even though no evidence of it has appeared. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson26 Aug 2026
• The effort typing requires, not raw typing speed, is what determines whether it becomes a real obstacle to writing. TBThorsten Ball1 Sept 2020

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