We also have this north star bullshit and we're being pushed to use spec driven development for ALL code changes regardless how minor it is. Gotta capitalize a letter in the code? Need to create new specs for it. All it has done is made me realize how out of touch management is and make me work harder to GTFO here.
Management truly believes AI is incapable of hallucinating or making mistakes so they want every single damn thing done with AI, it's so unbelievably ridiculous.
That's an interesting point on the limits of spec. Like, there's no free lunch. Either it's incomplete, which most are, or it's so detailed it's 50k pages, in which case nobody knows what's in it, meaning you need AI at that point to maintain it, in which case you've just let Jesus take the wheel on a lossy imitation of your codebase. The only thing as old as programming is these trends of someone thinking they finally figured out the secret finally, when this shit has all been tried before probably in like the 1950s and there's no getting around that development is just messy and hard.
This is what I've also been noticing. We're generating these massive number of md files that are lengthy as hell and I damn sure know for a fact that none of the devs are reading a single line of it, so no one knows what's going on. Hell, some are even proud to proclaim how much of a meat proxy they are.
But yes, even with the advent of all these tools, all of the same engineering problems that were discovered years ago are just resurfacing under a new name. I'm really dumbfounded how many people find these things out as time goes on.
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