[minimaxir]

What will people call it when coders rely on vibes even more than vibe coding?

[brookst]

Writing specs

[auggierose]

Exactly my thought. This is just natural language as a specification language.

[kiitos]

...as an ambiguous and inadequately-specified specification language.

[auggierose]

In the end, every specification is specified via natural language, this is just where the buck stops. All math books are written in natural language, even the ones about specification languages.

[kiitos]

Huh? Is ABNF a "natural language"? Is the Go language spec a "natural language"?

[auggierose]

How is ABNF itself specified? Yes, via natural language. And the Go language spec is written in natural language, too, you can check for yourself: https://go.dev/ref/spec

[roywiggins]

Haruspicy?