[barrkel]

It's quite tedious to have to write (or even say) full sentences to express intent. Imagine driving a car with a voice interface, including accelerator, brake, indicators and so on. Controls are less verbose and dashboards are more information rich than linear text.

It's difficult to be precise. Often it's easier to gauge things by looking at them while giving motor feedback (e.g. turning a dial, pushing a slider) than to say "a little more X" or "a bit less Y".

Language is poorly suited to expressing things in continuous domains, especially when you don't have relevant numbers that you can pick out of your head - size, weight, color etc. Quality-price ratio is a particularly tough one - a hard numeric quantity traded off against something subjective.

Most people can't specify up front what they want. They don't know what they want until they know what's possible, what other people have done, started to realize what getting what they want will entail, and then changed what they want. It's why we have iterative development instead of waterfall.

LLMs are a good start and a tool we can integrate into systems. They're a long, long way short of what we need.