Comment by miroljub
11 hours ago
That's precisely the difference between an engineer and a business guy.
The business guy would say "hey build me this and that" and would get _something_ to show of.
An engineer will have a long conversation with a llm about the exact requirements, tech stack, tradeoffs. He would understand what is built, how is it built, and refine on the fly until he gets something sensible.
It won't be as fast as "build this", but the result will be much better and more maintainable.
For the enginering workflow, you don't need Fable. Any model better or equivqlent to Sonnet 4.6 would do. Yes, sometimes it will hallucinate, sometimes it'll be wrong, but it's our job as engineers to correct it and have full ownership of the result.
what you said above is only true when the AI is not as smart/professional/knowledgable as that engineer.
Of course it's not. Otherwise, before telling it "do this app, make no mistakes" you would need to feed an AI with the complete relevant knowledge, history, and constraints, and then your prompt wouldn't be a one-liner, but a 3000-page document.
And yet, even the smartest AI in the world would give an alternative solution every time you invoke it. And you still need someone to judge what is right and what is not.