Tech guy invents the concept of giving instructions
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025
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With clear requirements and outcome expected
Why did no one think of this before
Who does that? What if they do everything right and it doesn't work and then it turns out it's my fault?
It would be nice if it was possible to describe perfectly what a program is supposed to do.
Someone should invent some kind of database of syntax, like a... code
But it would need to be reliable with a syntax, like some kind of grammar.
That's great, but then how do we know that the grammar matches what we want to do - with some sort of test?
How to we know what to test? Maybe with some kind of specification?
People could give things a name and write down what type of thing it is.
A codegrammar?
We don't want anything amateur. It has to be a professional codegrammar.
What, like some kind of design requirements?
Heresy!
Design requirements are too ambiguous.
Design requirements are what it should do, not how it does it.
That's why you must negotiate or clarify what is being asked. Once it has been accepted, it is not ambiguous anymore as long as you respect it.
I'm a systems analyst, or in agile terminology "a designer" as I'm responsible for "design artifacts"
Our designs are usually unambiguous
What did you said?
I think our man meant in terms of real-world situations
And NOT yet another front page written in ReactJS.
Oh, well, that's good, because I have a ton of people who work with Angular and not React.
This still isn't specific enough to specify exactly what the computer will do. There are an infinite number of python programs that could print Hello World in the terminal.
I knew it, i should've asked for assembly
Yeah but that's a lot of writing. Much less effort to get the plagiarism machine to write it instead.
Ha
None of us would have jobs
I think the joke is that that is literally what coding, is.
OP just chatting with themselves so they can screenshot it?
That is some telegram group and both messages shows from left with profile icons(which got cropped). The screenshot person sent the last message which shows double ticks
In the desktop client the positions of bubbles also depend on the width of the window.
Great attention to detail!
That's just a fake conversation in general, look at the timestamps between the messages from the interlocutor. Several minutes to type a complete sentence?
Hey, i can take a few hours to reply sometimes :c
Could be a group chat but we all know they're a twat
I wrote a shell script like this (it admin , notna dev) for private use.
The prompt took me like 5 hours of rewriting the instructions.
Don't even know yet if it works (lol)