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Try writing an exhaustive spec for anything non-trivial and you might see the problem.

• scuff3d 6mo ago
  Been saying this for a while now. I work in aerospace, and I can tell you from first hand experience software engineers don't know what designing a spec is. Aero, mechanical, and electrical engineers spend years designing a system. Design, requirements, reviews, redesign, more reviews, more requirements. Every single corner of the system is well understood before anything gets made. It's a detailed, time consuming, arduous process. Software engineers think they can duplicate that process with a few skills and a weekend planning session with Claude Code. Because implementation is cheaper we don't have to go as hard as the mechanical and electrical folks, but to properly spec a system is still a massive amount of up front effort.
  • sn9 6mo ago
    And software isn't as constrained by physics as hardware, which massively expands both the design space as well as how many ways things can go wrong.