There is verification and validation.
replyThe first part is making sure you built to your specification, the second thing is making sure you built specification was correct.
The second part is going to be the hard part for complex software and systems.
I think validation is already much easier using LLMs. Arguably this is one of the best use cases for coding LLMs right now: you can get claude to throw together a working demo of whatever wild idea you have without needing to write any code or write a spec. You don't even need to be a developer.
replyI don't know about you, but I'd much rather be shown a demo made by our end users (with claude) than get sent a 100 page spec. Especially since most specs - if you build to them - don't solve anyone's real problems.
Demo, don't memo.
> I can't use words to ask a 3d printer to make something.
replyYou can: the words are in the G-code language.
I mean: you are used to learn foreign languages in school, so you are already used to formulate your request in a different language to make yourself understood. In this case, this language is G-code.
This is a strange take; no one is hand-writing the g-code for their 3d print. There are ways to model objects using code (eg openscad), but that still doesn't replace the actual mechanical design work involved in studying a problem and figuring out what sort of part is required to solve it.
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