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by svilen_dobrev 94 days ago
it used to be that coding was veeery tough and tedious thing, so specifications had to be really well pre-chewed, down to the bone. Think 60ies and 70'ies .

Each decade after that, less and less of the specification is being ever written, and it is/was left to the programmer to finish it as they seem fit, and more and more programmers became (business-) domain-experts. Just see job ads for last (20?+) years - half is software-stuff, half is domain-knowledge required.

so.. do you think there's some reset happening/pending? So there is more specification being written? Or is it faster prototype-and-throw-away loop, and at the end the spec is "make it like this but prdocution grade" - instead of (again) actual proper specification with all the whys/whats/hows in it ?