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Writing a spec is a problem that can be broken down into sub-problems and so on. It’s not magic, and while the LLMs of today may do it poorly, there’s nothing s

Writing a spec is a problem that can be broken down into sub-problems and so on. It’s not magic, and while the LLMs of today may do it poorly, there’s nothing special about the task that would prevent better models from doing a decent job. I’m sure if someone posted on here 5 years ago that they were building an AI that could at an image and tell you what’s funny about it, people on here would be foaming at the mouth to explain how impossible that task is, that only humans possess the subjective viewpoint and je-ne-sai-quois of human… and now here we are.

qsort 4y ago
> Writing a spec is a problem that can be broken down into sub-problems and so on. Yes, a.k.a. programming. If you assume that you have a machine powerful enough to do that, then you have a machine powerful enough to do anything at all: you are assuming the thing you're trying to prove. There exists no universe where a machine that can do whatever you want by being instructed verbally isn't also replacing the one instructing it...