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Re:A sufficiently detailed spec is code by rahulj51 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:28AM (#47435666)
For this to be true, we should be able to

- Delete code and start all over with the spec. I don't think anyone's ready to do that.

- Buy a software product / business and be content with just getting markdown files in a folder.

Re:A sufficiently detailed spec is code by midasz on Thursday March 19, 2026 @04:00AM (#47436250)
This and the idea of creating some sort of english-adjacent programming language for LLM's is fun, I guess, but what problem is it solving. Do we really need to go an abstraction higher?
Re:A sufficiently detailed spec is code by zevisert on Thursday March 19, 2026 @02:35AM (#47435699)
I've heard of people _experimenting_ with deleting their code every day.

I haven't heard of being content paying for a product consisting of markdown files. Though I could imagine people paying for agent skill files. But yet, the skills are not the same product as say, linear.