E‑‑: The middle ground between English and Python

Or, what if you could dial how much English lives in your code, per line?

Modern LLM code generation has a strange property. Your program's behavior is a function of your prompt, the model's mood, and whatever context happened to be in memory. There's no single artifact you can point to and say "this is what runs." Same input, different output. Same request, different code.

You can work around this — cache LLM output, freeze model versions, forbid regeneration at runtime. But you're always working around the LLM, never with it.

E-- flips the shape. What if the LLM's involvement was constrained to a specific structural slot in your source, resolved once at compile time, and everything else was normal deterministic code? Now you can pick, per value, how much LLM you want in your program. Once picked, the result is byte-for-byte reproducible.

You can dial the English-Python ratio per line, per value, per region. Whichever end of the spectrum makes sense right there.