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by tsunamifury 14 days ago
Isn't coding the act of specificying the work to a processor? And AI agents are supposed to bridge the gap with intelligence from less specificed to more specified or possibly even more intelligent and alternate implementations?
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What I meant by "ground truth" is that it is not fuzzy, not AI-evaluated, and not a consensus. The test suite passes or it doesn't. The codebase lints or it doesn't. The performance improved or it didn't.

An agent can help you create the specification, but it's up to you to know whether it's correctly testing that you got the result you wanted.

Yep. And yet, there's still some level of specification you have to do.