| Sure because it worked great when we tried last time, right? Just spec it out first, and AI will churn out the perfect app. Not. For anyone who hasn't worked in a waterfall project and would like to try: You are kidding yourself. There is no such thing as a perfect spec. Read that again and say it outloud. It took humanity 50 years to figure out that perfect specs are impossible, unless of course you know exactly(!) what you need. And even then, the specs are never complete. The reality is that we often don't know, and can't know, what we want, exactly, until we actually see and experience what we said we wanted. Then we adjust. Try again. That's the reality for individuals already. By simply using logic we can deduct that entities made of more than one individual, aka companies, will not behave better. They just make it look better by giving you a nice document that says "we want this!", only to then come around when they see what they got, and to claim "wait, we didn't mean it like so!". That's just human nature. Not much we can do. AI will not change that. So when some people think AI will deliver perfect software given perfect specs, hence we have to write the specs first! That is just missing the boat my a mile. Agile is not a process but a human-friendly way of doing things. It simply says hey you want this? Let me build that and show you. Then let's adjust or move to the next thing. Rinse and repeat. Agile works because it matches how humans think and act. Step by step, day by day. |
It’s not just dropping in case and getting a functional product. But more up front design seems to work best. Very explicit design.