[Vegenoid]

> Big part of being a lawyer is having the same context with all the other lawyers and knowing what was already decided and what possible new interpretation is likely to be accepted by everyone else.

And to create software specifications with language, the same thing will need to happen. You’ll need shared terminology and context that the LLM will correctly and consistently interpret, and that other engineers will understand. This means that very specific meanings become attached to certain words and phrases. Without this, you aren’t making precise specifications. To create and interpret these specifications will require learning the language of the specs. It may well still be easier than code - but then it would also be less precise.

[Muromec]

>And to create software specifications with language, the same thing will need to happen. You’ll need shared terminology and context that the LLM will correctly and consistently interpret, and that other engineers will understand.

That sounds awfully similar to... software development.

[est31]

Yeah many programming languages have been advertised to fulfil precisely this goal, that people can program computers via natural language instead of having to think hard and too much about details.

Usually programming languages intend to make editing as easy as possible, but also understanding what the program does, as well as reasoning about performance, with different languages putting different emphasis on the various aspects.

[jimbokun]

And this could end up looking more like mathematics notation than English. For the same reason mathematicians opt to use specialized notation to communicate with greater precision than natural language.