Comment by skydhash

> That's why we have recipes, and even they can be modified as long as the exepectation is met: It has to be sweet, soft, covered in something white and must have strawberries inside

How sweet? How thick should be the covering? What’s the ratio in strawberry? Even for someone taste, which is subjective, expectations may be precisely defined.

Code is the most precise form of specs. It is not what the computer runs. The computer has no concepts of functions, objects, value types, files, buttons,… We have tools that takes code and transform into what the computer can understand.

What you say is specs is merely some doodling which always need to be properly transform into good engineering drawings. Or someone’s humming that needs to be written properly in a music sheet.