Sue SmithFeb 1

"The specification language gets more precise over time, because natural language is ambiguous and different models interpret the same prompt differently. You add more structure. You define exact function signatures. You specify return types. You nail down error handling behavior with enough precision that two different models should produce interchangeable output. The specification starts looking less like English prose and more like a programming language."

https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/30/will-ai-make-package-managers-redundant.html

Will AI Make Package Managers Redundant?

Following the prompt registry idea to its logical conclusion.

Andrew Nesbitt
Show threadSue SmithFeb 1
This is obviously a thought experiment but I can genuinely see a lot of these spec driven projects going this way, at some point you're trying to do something that would have been easier just using an existing high level programming language.
Show threadSue SmithFeb 1
Which might be an indictment of how badly we've taught these programming languages tbh lol.
Show threadjoat
@sue or maybe *which* languages we taught? Because if the main teaching language was something like C++ I can imagine people thinking all languages were similarly complex and difficult and wanting nothing to do with programming.
Feb 1 at 12:37pmWeb