[discreteevent]

> How is this really different from careful prompt engineering, and an extensive proposal/review/refine process?

So different that those concepts don't even exist.

I don't have to carefully prompt my compiler in case it might misinterpret what I'm saying. My compiler comes with a precisely specified language.

I never, ever, review the output of my compiler.

[petcat]

> I don't have to carefully prompt my compiler in case it might misinterpret what I'm saying.

Yes you do. You give it flags, you give it ENV vars.

> My compiler comes with a precisely specified language.

No, it doesn't.

> I never, ever, review the output of my compiler.

Yes, that's the whole point of the exercise. Have you ever reviewed the -S output from GCC? No? So do you really know what your code is doing?

[xigoi]

> Yes, that's the whole point of the exercise. Have you ever reviewed the -S output from GCC? No? So do you really know what your code is doing?

Because I gave it some code in a different language and it mechanically translated it through a deterministic, clearly documented process.