Post #2769028
2026-03-18 12:46 UTC
@iainvdw@mastodon.social Yeah, no idea. I guess the real source will move to a higher level, like a human-language requirements spec. I wouldn't be surprised if coding-oriented design specs were also auto-generated from even higher-level spec/prompt.
What's striking to me is that GitHub stops making sense in such world. It'll be easier than ever to fork and modify projects and even merge different forks, but also futile to do it on a shared codebase. It's disposable single-use code.
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@happyborg@fosstodon.org 2026-03-18 14:17
@kornel@mastodon.social The reason we have programming languages is because natural language is such an inadequate way of specifying requirements. Otherwise we'd have compilers interpret them. That's essentially what an LLM coding model attempts to do, making stochastic guesses at what will satisfy the description, based on ingested codebases. Not enough people understand why this is a ridiculous approach, and that's why so many are choosing such poor tools, that will ultimately fail them. @iainvdw@mastodon.social