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Verifying behavior is great and all if you can actually exhaustively test the behaviors of your system. If you can't, then not knowing what your code is actuall
by wobblyasp 1y ago
Verifying behavior is great and all if you can actually exhaustively test the behaviors of your system. If you can't, then not knowing what your code is actually doing is going to set you back when things do go belly up.
- ipnon 1y agoI love this comment because it makes perfect sense today, it made perfect sense 10 years ago, it would have made perfect sense in 1970. The principles of software engineering are not changed by the introduction of commodified machine intelligence.
- dhorthy 1y agoi 100% agree - the folks who are best at ai-first engineering, they spend 3 days designing the test harness and then kick off an agent unsupervised for 2+ days and come back to working software. not exactly valuable as guidance since programming languages are very easy to verify, but the https://ghuntley.com/ralph https://ghuntley.com/ralph post is an example of whats possible on the very extreme end of the spectrum