> What makes you think this approach is faster than just writing down the specification in your head? For non programmers, manager type people it would be the

> What makes you think this approach is faster than just writing down the specification in your head? For non programmers, manager type people it would be the holy grail. Not necessarily faster but probably cheaper :) > Is it because you assume the machine can guess important design decisions that you leave out? Yes, if sufficiently enough systems are wired up then it should be able to at least guess what level of abstraction is missing or what to ask next to proceed. I know what programming is, I do it day to day. Here I'm talking about a generally intelligent system that could do the same. The trick obviously is to skip writing detailed enough specification that would be equivalent to code. The article says that programming won't be automated. I say that we don't have the capable systems, but we are getting there slowly.