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jmull ◴[] No.45212981[source]
This vision of AI programming is DOA.

The first step is "define the problem clearly".

This would be incredibly useful for software development, period. A 10x factor, all by itself. Yet it happens infrequently, or, at best, in significantly limited ways.

The main problem, I think, is that it assumes you already know what you want at the start, and, implicitly, that what you want actually makes some real sense.

I guess maybe the context is cranking out REST endpoints or some other constrained detail of a larger thing. Then, sure.

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1. dec0dedab0de ◴[] No.45214051[source]
Figuring out what you want is the hard part about programming. I think that's where AI augmentation will really shine, because it lowers the time between iterations and experiments.

That said, this article is basically describing being a product owner.