Comment by jdw64
1 day ago
Peter Naur argued in his famous essay Programming as Theory Building that documentation alone cannot fully capture or preserve the complete mental model behind a program.
However, AI works differently from humans in that much more of its working context has to be made explicit. Because of that, there may be some fundamentally different way for AI to maintain or reconstruct a program’s overall model.
But then, how do you keep the theory in your own mind enough to steer the agents to extend the program? I've been asking around, and different people seem to have different ways, colored by the way they work.
You don't even consciously do most of it... your brain retrains part of it on the program.
LLMs don't retrain, it's too expensive atm.
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