Post #1407443
2026-03-06 16:13 UTC
@cross @jschuster @lindsey @krismicinski @jfdm @csgordon @jeremysiek
Of course, I'm not *convinced* about that. I'm thinking about other approaches too. The best special case of it is this project:
https://blog.brownplt.org/2025/12/11/pick-regex.html
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@cross@discuss.systems 2026-03-06 18:44
@shriramk @jschuster @lindsey @krismicinski@types.pl @jfdm @csgordon @jeremysiek yeah. Bryan Cantrill and I were discussing this last week. A trend I've observed is that the LLM does much better when given very precise instructions, sometimes totaling thousands of lines of written text. It reminds me of waterfall development, which never really worked. But why didn't waterfall work? Because the distance between phases was too large; by the time you were in development, it was too late to go back to requirements and iterate through design again. The LLMs sort of short-circuits that process, allowing rapid feedback; does this mean a return to waterfall development styles?