[_pdp_]

A lot of interesting replies below this comment that I won't be able to respond to individually.

I'll just leave this here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P_versus_NP_problem

[robot-wrangler]

That seems barely related and settles nothing? Bottom line is simple, saying "you can't spec out something you have no clue how to build" is saying you cannot desire coldness unless you understand how to build a refrigerator. It's just the difference between what and how. If you don't know the difference between implementation and specifications, just try a whole day of answering "what" and "why" questions with "how" answers and see how it goes.

[_pdp_]

Writing tests for a known solution (verification) is straightforward. But speccing out and testing something you haven't even figured out how to build yet (discovery) is a fundamentally harder problem.

Try speccing out a flux capacitor. I'll wait.

https://chatbotkit.com/reflections/verification-is-easier-th...