You can do that - it's called Spec Driven Development.
replyPrompts are not specs.
replyI don't see the term used in the article.
replyits not a Claude-specific term
replyProblem is that for any non trivial software is that the prompt is a conversation and the steps increasingly depend on the output. Of course you can ask your LLM to write the SPEC.md at any moment but it will lack nuance.
replyShameless plug: at https://slopyard.net I embrace this and only let people submit the spec. If somebody wants your software they can regenerate it and change whatever they want.
This reminds me of the halfbakery website from older times.
replyDo we have reproducible LLMs?
replyPossible in theory, with a seeded PRNG, but in practice?
Proponents of LLM coding agents would claim you don’t need reproducibility. As long as the final output passes tests/lint, it’s (allegedly) good to go.
replyIf every build is different, no two builds will have the same bug/exploit, so maybe better security??
replyOne of the goals of "Operation Rapidash" (q.v.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065342) was precisely this. "You can delete the whole source repo and get effectively the same software back from the specs by running it through [AI agent]."
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