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by lubujackson 109 days ago
My question is always: what are you building? You need to tell the AI what to build. What if it does it in a way that isn't what you want, or makes the buttom blue instead of red, or any number of other decisions?

AI can write the code, but not tell you what code you want it to write. In other words, how long are your specs? Either the LLM decides "whatever" or you have massive amounts of documentation to coordinate.

We still need to decide what to build, and some of the how. That is not automate-able, yet everyone seems to gloss over that bit.

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Yes, the LLM writes the specs. In fact that LLM writes everything, and then the humans only flag anything they want changed, other than that it’s completely automated.

Imagine you were working with a very talented software shop. You might tell them your preferences sometimes and some things you want changed, but otherwise they mostly just build the right things the right way. And unlike a real software shop, the LLM system can implement changes incredibly fast.