Comment by josephg
12 hours ago
I think validation is already much easier using LLMs. Arguably this is one of the best use cases for coding LLMs right now: you can get claude to throw together a working demo of whatever wild idea you have without needing to write any code or write a spec. You don't even need to be a developer.
I don't know about you, but I'd much rather be shown a demo made by our end users (with claude) than get sent a 100 page spec. Especially since most specs - if you build to them - don't solve anyone's real problems.
Demo, don't memo.
Hard disagree, clients/users often don't know what the best/right solution is, simply because they don't know what's possible or they haven't seen any prior art.
I'd much rather have a conversation with them to discuss their current problems and workflow, then offer my ideas and solutions.
Hm, how much real life experience do you have in delivering production SW systems?
Demo for the main flow is easy. The hard part is thinking through all the corner cases and their interactions, so your system robustly works in real world, interacting with the everyday chaos in a non-brittle fashion.
I don’t think you are using validation in the same sense as PC