[hparadiz]

Code is not a spec. It's an instruction set. It can be a spec if you try hard but that's not an inherent property of code. For example you can write code to be a compiler..that makes it a spec. But hello world is not a spec.

As for whether or not LLMs can write unit tests. The answer is yes.

[recursive]

Hello world is a spec. The spec says to produce the text hello world on standard output.

[hparadiz]

Try running it without a compatible ABI. See how far you get.

[recursive]

Not sure what the point is. We can update the spec with "in the presence of a compatible ABI".

[hparadiz]

All I'm saying is a program isn't VHS. It's a VHS tape. At that point it's largely philosophy. Can you reconstruct a VHS format from a VHS tape? Sure.

[recursive]

For non trivial uses it wouldn't be a great spec. But I think we can bring our worlds together with a bit of boilerplate.

> The system shall have behavior identical to that expressed by the system created by the following source code. [add some stuff about environment to taste]