Two quotes that I like and think are relevant to the discussion: "Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification." --

Two quotes that I like and think are relevant to the discussion: "Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification." -- Fred Brooks "If you don't understand precisely what you need to do, what makes you think you can tell a computer how to do it?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10173640 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10173640 For a highly standardized product, maybe the "specifying what you want" isn't a big problem, but in other cases I think it is.