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Eventually maybe only the same amount of time it takes the average programmer to understand your meaning.
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
Eventually maybe only the same amount of time it takes the average programmer to understand your meaning.
- chubot 5y agoSo like months and years? On every project I’ve worked on, the programmers conception of the requirements evolves until the minute they stop working on it. And they only understand the part they worked on, not the whole thing
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoThe discussion is not about understanding "requirements". A piece of software is a set of instructions that tell a computer how to do something. We use languages like C, Python, Haskell and Lisp to describe what to do in ways that avoid as much ambiguity as possible. The question is: if you used a natural (human) language, how much confusion would (a) the putative GPT-3000 (b) another programmer (c) a compiler/interpreter incur when trying to understand your instructions?
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoThat might be true. But the comparison is not with another programmer. Rather, it's with the essentially instantaneous understanding that a compiler/interpreter has when you feed in a programming language.