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> code is a much smaller domain than the law. Law of an average EU country fits in several hundred, let's say even thousands, of pages of text. Specification.
by menaerus 2y ago
> code is a much smaller domain than the law.
Law of an average EU country fits in several hundred, let's say even thousands, of pages of text. Specification. Very well known. Low frequency of updates. But code? Everything opposite so I am not sure I could agree on this point at all.
- petesergeant 2y agoRight, but you're missing the point here that interpreting the law requires someone with a law degree, and all the real-world context that they have, and all the subtle knowledge about what things mean. The Bible is also a short and well-known text, but if I want to answer religious questions for observant Christians, I can't just train it on that. You need a deep real world context to understand that "my buddy made SWE II and I'm only SWE I and it's eating me up" is about the biblical notion of covetousness.
- menaerus 2y agoAnd then I guess you're also missing the point that interpreting and writing the code also requires an expert and that in that respect it is no different than law. I could argue that engineering is more complex than interpreting law but that's not the point now. Subtleties and ambiguity are large in both domains. So, I don't see the point you're trying to make. We can agree to disagree I guess.