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Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don... by recursive on Sunday June 07, 2026 @12:13PM (#48436207)
Hello world is a spec. The spec says to produce the text hello world on standard output.
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Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don... by hparadiz on Sunday June 07, 2026 @12:17PM (#48436258)
Try running it without a compatible ABI. See how far you get.
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Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don... by recursive on Sunday June 07, 2026 @01:18PM (#48436827)
Not sure what the point is. We can update the spec with "in the presence of a compatible ABI".
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Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don... by hparadiz on Sunday June 07, 2026 @01:25PM (#48436895)
All I'm saying is a program isn't VHS. It's a VHS tape. At that point it's largely philosophy. Can you reconstruct a VHS format from a VHS tape? Sure.
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Re:LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don... by recursive on Sunday June 07, 2026 @02:59PM (#48437599)
For non trivial uses it wouldn't be a great spec. But I think we can bring our worlds together with a bit of boilerplate.

> The system shall have behavior identical to that expressed by the system created by the following source code. [add some stuff about environment to taste]

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