I wonder if someday we will get to the point where Github repos are just markdown files describing the project and then you just let your own agent implement it because why the hell would I trust your agent's implementation?
I wonder if someday we will get to the point where Github repos are just markdown files describing the project and then you just let your own agent implement it because why the hell would I trust your agent's implementation?
Here's a couple examples, I've seen others as well:
https://github.com/seb3773/ntfs-repair-rfc
https://github.com/Kotivskyi/screenshot-tool
I think it was more popular around the beginning of the year to mid-year
Seriously. I imagine this will be the case soon enough in some shape or form.
Whenever I see these vibecoded apps, my move is to just do what you've described: point an agent at it and tell it to reproduce it (usually with my own little customizations). It's a bit absurd, but I don't trust that they vibecoded the app as well as "I" could lol.
A 100%! Just imagine you could describe every solution to a problem just using language! Of cause you would to make sure to avoid ANY missunderstanding, but therfore you could invent a language specified for avoiding ambiguity. I could imagine just to reduce the words to a very small corpus so everybody can remember it and have a very strict grammar so a program can effortlessly check correctness of its sentences.
Well, I've always thought we are stuck in a local minimum when it comes to programming languages. Like, programming shouldn't be this hard and shouldn't require so much boilerplate after almost a century. If the actual important logic can be inferred pretty well from markdown specs, that means most of what we write in JavaScript, Go, Java is redundant.
Hopefully someone smarter than me is working with trying to develop a new programming language given what we know to be possible with LLMs
I hope someone reads your post. I had to laugh hysterically when I reached the end. The level of sarcasm is too high.
You have not experienced spec writing until you have written them in the original Klingon.
This only works while tokens are artificially cheap. The gravy train could come to an end at some point.
The open models that are chasing the frontier labs will stop being open once things slow down and there is less incentive to undercut the front runners. Time will tell if GPU compute gets cheap enough to run stuff locally.
This post makes me want to buy Nvidia stocks.
/goal build this but better
Isn't it already kind of like that? Except the agent reads the code as if it's markdown. There's really no difference anymore, is there?
With enough model drift that won’t even work over time. These files would have to be pinned to the intended model version and that is either used directly or emulated with a faithful emulator in a larger model.
I doubt that will be a problem. Models are different enough right now. If you can write a spec with enough detail and constraints today to get valid and comparable output from say GPT-6 Astra, Opus 5.5, DSV4F, Kimi K3, GLM 5.3, etc... Then I think there's a good chance that whatever SoTA coding LLMs everyone is using 3 years from now will also be able to implement that same spec.
Again, I think it heavily depends on if people are writing comprehensive specs with sufficient detail.
That depends on if you are really getting what you expect from the spec or you are actually relying on undefined behavior for your expected output from the spec. This is why we often pin software library versions: we may very well be relying on unintended or a bugged behavior to get out expected output.
llmpm
Sounds like Github is optional at that point. Why not just use Medium or WordPress?
Just tell claude to share it with other claude users
reddit! use reddit!
ding ding! we have a winner!
Eh I think it'll be more like Gibson's defensive ICE in that ICE is "my swarm of agents scans your code for nasties, then compiles it from source".
Neither party owns their agents though. Is it simply then a matter of "my subscription is better than your subscription"?
First you'd have to stop the agents from flagging hundreds of irrelevant nasties.
I think the next generation of exploit will be putting up code all over the internet that does x, y and z and then when asked to one shot whatever that code does the agents bake in the exploit that was indirectly included in their training corpus.
if all your models are in the cloud, why would you trust anything your agent builds
That sounds cynical today, but that's just because the AI models are currently outrunning enshittification. I'm already pondering personal plans about what to do when that turns around. We haven't seen enshittification yet that is going to be like the enshittification of AI. It may even deserve a new term of its very own, it's going to be such a big problem. The AI companies are leaving a lot of value on the table to entice us on to their systems but at some point that's going to turn around.
The existential danger exists today: you're providing your entire business toolchain to models in the cloud, owned by businesses who are for profit entity. Even if the model itself doesn't care about your data, the business model does.
Everything your building is now streaming through a third party who could steal it, the same way Amazon steals open source software and repackages it.
All you need to do is look at palentir's forward deployed engineers. Once you let a third party observe your processed, you're cloneable and replaceable _as an entity_.
I think we can look at our own human psychology as it developed into social groups. If our brains were obviously deterministic, it would be easy for people to prey upon us via structured inputs. Some level of randomness in our thought process is almost evolutionarily required to avoid becoming part of the larger super structure, similar to an ant colony.
So these AI companies are definitely more dangerous than just the "AI is super intelligence". They're basically a intelligence platform everyone is wiring into.
That's today. Tomorrow, they'll be run by an MBA which is the enshittification.
> Some level of randomness in our thought process is almost evolutionarily required to avoid becoming part of the larger super structure, similar to an ant colony.
Not really. Ants are superorganisms, they share more than half of their DNA with each other. You could think of each ant as being like a cell in a human.
software businesses are not like watches (recently saw a youtube video about fakes being made virtually identical at 10% of the price).
If you can make a facebook clone it doesn't mean you can steal facebook's lunch. there are exceptions of course.