2026-04-05 09:18 UTC
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@sue@glasgow.social 2026-04-05 09:22
The most annoying thing for me is that LLMs could absolutely help people learn to code, but overwhelmingly not by generating code, that's the myopic focus because it's the utility that promises to undermine labour
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@loathsome_dongeater@toots.matapacos.dog 2026-04-05 09:27
@sue I got burnout just from looking at that spec.md file. Who would ever want to write 2k lines of spec as the very first step. I feel like writing spec without testing it against reality (by materialising it as code) would lead to an immense number of mistakes.
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@casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de 2026-04-05 12:05
@sue Yes, I mean there are now systems like Autocode where you just enter some specifications in a special language and they'll just spit out the machine code for you. No actual programming required.
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@hyc@mastodon.social 2026-04-05 18:31
@sue when I was at JPL I found it frustrating that we spent months writing specs before writing any code. Most of the specs would be wildly inaccurate by the time you were writing the actual code, because of other parameters you'd need, differences in how you broke out the work into individual functions, etc... So tedious.