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by ClassAndBurn 1217 days ago
I agree here. Formal models have to become easier to create through.

Today's ecosystem requires advanced knowledge of system design and still coding abilities.

To democratize model generation we need a more iterative and understandable way of defining intented execution. The problem is this devolves into just coding the damn thing pretty quickly.

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For sure! I agree, it needs better languages, education, and tooling. It's not about making a hard problem harder; it's about making it more accessible and straight-forward to teach and use in day-to-day work.

Being more clear and precise in our specifications would only benefit us and the AI/ML tool generating the code. We could lean more on the correctness built into the entire stack rather than having to proof-read a mess of inferred code, something we're terribly ill-equipped to do.

> Being more clear and precise in our specifications would only benefit us and the AI/ML tool generating the code

Good luck with that. We have those languages already. For example Idris. It's just that now you are essentially doing a lot of math.

And, funnily, I never hear people saying "making [math] more accessible and straight-forward to teach and use in day-to-day work". I wonder why...