[sdevonoes]

Biggest problem right now is that we have teams pushing dozen of MD files, dozend of thousands of lines of English prose as if they were specs. There’s no way we can validate so much written prose because it’s plain English: perhaps one sentence is written in a way LLMs will read between the lines; perhaps line 100 and line 1000 are contradictory in such a subtle way that LLMs may not be aware of it.

In my company we have so much english prose committed to MD files that Im starting to think it’s all just snake oil. I cannot trust an engineer that writes “no bugs , please” and can go on with their lives.

[tuveson]

What we need is some sort of Common, business-Oriented suBset Of the english Language that can be deterministically translated into something that the machine can understand, but also be read and understood by non-technical stakeholders. Such technology is a pipe dream, but one can dream…