i see what you mean. but I wonder if this is because we have difficulty imagining a totally possible thing. i mean, surely at one point it must have seemed like less machine code engineers, and more script monkeys writing something extremely high level, was a nonstarter. or perhaps firing system software engineers and just letting FE devs write something extremely high level must have seemed like a nonstarter at one point.
but here we are.
> natural language just isn't precise enough for this
i often make the mistake of thinking business needs something more precise than what it is actually asking for (or what it truly needs). of course precise dollars and cents truly matter in some situations, but in other situations a crud app or report has a great deal of flexibility in its requirements. not willing to die on this hill, but i wonder if precise software and precise computer modelling is because the tools require it to be precise? and if so, a less precise interface tool may well lead to less precise inputs that still meet the underlying business requirements.
i see what you mean. but I wonder if this is because we have difficulty imagining a totally possible thing. i mean, surely at one point it must have seemed like less machine code engineers, and more script monkeys writing something extremely high level, was a nonstarter. or perhaps firing system software engineers and just letting FE devs write something extremely high level must have seemed like a nonstarter at one point.
but here we are.
> natural language just isn't precise enough for this
i often make the mistake of thinking business needs something more precise than what it is actually asking for (or what it truly needs). of course precise dollars and cents truly matter in some situations, but in other situations a crud app or report has a great deal of flexibility in its requirements. not willing to die on this hill, but i wonder if precise software and precise computer modelling is because the tools require it to be precise? and if so, a less precise interface tool may well lead to less precise inputs that still meet the underlying business requirements.