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by weego 260 days ago
We also have to pretend that anyone has ever been any good at writing descriptive, detailed, clear and precise specs or documentation. That might be a skillset that appears in the workforce, but absolutely not in 2 years. A technical writer that deeply understands software engineering so they can prompt correctly but is happy not actually looking at code and just goes along with whatever the agent generates? I don't buy it.

This seems like a typical engineer forgets people aren't machines line of thinking.