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Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) by bazoom42 on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:06AM (#50206259)
Why didnt you vibecode the The nonfunctional requirements?
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Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) by mettamage on Friday October 23, 2026 @06:31AM (#50206842)
Not needed yet, we needed to capture the UX first to see if we could create what we'd want to create.
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Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) by 0c3ca83 on Friday October 23, 2026 @08:28AM (#50207909)
"it didn't replace programmers because we didn't ask it to" seems like a really weird argument to make.
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Re:The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978) by bulbar on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:44AM (#50231513)
I think the point is that it doesn't "just work" of you don't know what you are doing.

In general I got the feeling that AI saves a lot of work, avoids a lot of big category, but also introduces new but categories that you need to account for.

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