> I wish pg was more active on HN - I expect this is one of the reasons why he wanted founders to have and share the painpoints of their (potential) customers. Figuring out the intent is expensive. Mistake the intent and the best case scenario is a pivot.

Your mistake is that you think the point is that only engineers participate in the production of code. In fact, the point is that the product team and the people closest to the customer can generate the code. And for that reason, the goal is to produce a framework on top of which "perfect" code can be produced with relative ease and consistency regardless of whether the user is part of engineering or product.

    > Is your cost model accounting for the cost of specification

This is the same cost no matter what. The LLM does not generate code on its own; some operator must provide some instruction and specification regardless so you might as well give it good ones. But here, I would point out that there is a high level of broader general instructions that incur a one-time cost of specification ("Always write this code this way").

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