> programming is about translating unclear requirements in a verbose (English) language into a terse (programming) language
Why are we uniquely capable of doing that, but an LLM isn't? In plan mode I've been seeing them ask for clarifications and gather further requirements
Important business context can be provided to them, also
An LLM isn’t (yet?) capable of remembering a long-term representation of the codebase. Neither is it capable of remembering a long-term representation of the business domain. AGENTS.md can help somewhat but even those still need to be maintained by a human.
But don’t take it from me - go compete with me! Can you do my job (which is 90% talking to people to flesh out their unclear business requirements, and only 10% actually writing code)? It so, go right ahead! But since the phone has yet to stop ringing, I assume LLMs are nowhere there yet. Btw, I’m helping people who already use LLM-assisted programming, and reach out to me because they’ve reached their limitations and need an actual human to sanity-check.
We are uniquely capable of doing that because we invented that :) It’s a self-serving definition, a job description.
This isn’t an argument against LLMs capability. But the burden of proof is on the LLMs’ side.
True. That capability might be reserved for AGI. The current implementation does feel like a party trick and I don't enjoy working with it