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Comment #48918295
I think whoever is responsible for the correct operation of a software system will still need to read something that precisely describes the behaviours that they care about. Today,…
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Comment #48918252
An important difference is the code precisely expresses many behaviours of the program, and a correct compiler guarantees to respect those behaviours. An AI prompt is not so precis…
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Comment #48918145
Unfortunately the tests can't (usually) cover all behaviours. And perhaps more importantly, they don't capture more abstract properties of the code like maintainability. AI works b…