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A very comprehensive and precise spec

by Etienne Issartial and Thomas Gx (CommitStrip)Published:

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A very comprehensive and precise spec, as published. The dialogue is transcribed alongside.
A very comprehensive and precise spec — Etienne Issartial and Thomas Gx (CommitStrip). Non-commercial use with link and credit

Dialogue

  1. Coffee drinkerSome day we won't even need coders any more. We'll be able to just write the specification and the program will write itself
  2. DeveloperOh wow, you're right! We'll be able to write a comprehensive and precise spec and bam, we won't need programmers any more!
  3. Coffee drinkerExactly!
  4. DeveloperAnd do you know the industry term for a project specification that is comprehensive and precise enough to generate a program?
  5. Coffee drinkerUh... no...
  6. DeveloperCode
  7. DeveloperIt's called code

Why it lands

From 2016, and it has come back with every tool since that promises to turn requirements into software. A specification precise enough to leave nothing to interpret is a program; the work does not disappear, it moves into the spec. The coffee being spilled in the last panel is the right reaction.

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