This isn't a thing to worry about at this point. In the real world (outside of programming competitions, that is), programmers don't get clear instructions for

This isn't a thing to worry about at this point. In the real world (outside of programming competitions, that is), programmers don't get clear instructions for what we're doing, and what instructions we get deal with messy aspects of the real world. For just one example I tried: if you ask Codex how to calculate taxes on US products, it misses the point of the ask. I know that you have a tax rate and a price and you multiple them together - but what tax rate is applicable? Figuring that out is a thorny problem. In programming, a lot of the inherent complexity is in understanding the weird bits of ambiguity and the corner cases. Whether that specification is through natural language or some other thing, we're a ways of from a computer capable of replacing us on that.