Sarah Jamie LewisMar 1

"what if we first wrote a robust specification and constrained the bots to deriving code that conformed to the spec?"

I literally spent YEARS of my life deriving robust specifications for systems, and I had the benefit of the software already existing and operating in the real world, and occasionally access to previous documents that at one point people might have described as "specifications".

Show threadMoz
@sarahjamielewis someone is about to invent TDD, or contract-based programming, or the waterfall model. Just wait until they invent fire!
Mar 1 at 2:14amWeb
Show threadgemma lynnMar 1
@moz @sarahjamielewis "we're going back to waterfall and TDD" is a real quote from leadership in one of my meetings last week.
Show threadMozMar 1
@ello @sarahjamielewis "don't use your judgement, just do what you're told" is the programmer version of work to rule and it utterly destroys managers. Apparently LLMs do that by default :)