> I’m not sure I would agree. By the time you’ve written a full spec for it, you may as well have just written a high level programming language anyway.
Remember all those attempts to transform UML into code back in the day? This sounds sorta like that. I’m not a total genai naysayer but definitely in the “cautiously curious” camp.
Absolutely, we've tried lots of ways to formalise software specification and remove or minimise the amount of coding, and almost none of it has stuck other than creating high level languages and better code-level abstractions.
I think generative AI is already a "really good autocomplete" and will get better in that respect, I can even see it generating good starting points, but I don't think in its current form it will replace the act of programming.