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Comment by claytongulick

30 minutes ago

> If you ask 10 different humans to produce the spec with the same information (prompt and context) they will also produce 10 unique answers

But they didn't ask humans, they asked a machine. We expect our machines to behave in predictable ways.

> If the prompt already contained answers to all the decision points that come up when writing the spec then the prompt would already be the spec itself.

This is one of the best arguments against using LLMs I've seen.

It reduces to the classic argument- at the point where you've described a problem and solution in sufficient detail to be confident in the results, you've invented a programming language.