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Let's say we get an AI that can take well-written requirements and cough up an app. I think you have to be a developer to learn how to write those requirements

Let's say we get an AI that can take well-written requirements and cough up an app. I think you have to be a developer to learn how to write those requirements well. And I don't even mean the concepts of data flows and logic flows. I mean, just learning to organise thoughts in a way that they don't fatally contradict themselves or lead to dead ends or otherwise tie themselves in unresolvable knots. I mean like non-lawyers trying to write laws without any understanding of the entire suite of mental furniture.

mianos 2y ago
That is exactly what I mean when I said "we'll be the ones using it". I didn't want to expand it, for fear of sounding like an elitist, and you said it better anyway. The same things that make a programmer excellent will be in a much better position to use an even better LLM. Concise thinking and expression. At the moment LLMs will just kinda 'shotgun' scattered ideas based on your input. I expect the better ones will be massively better when fed better input.