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My gut tells me this pattern, which doesn’t really have a name, is going to be *the* pattern for working with these technologies to do complex things. The best name I can find for it is “specification repair”—see, for example, [this paper](https://arxiv.org/html/2309.16120v3). You ask a question and the LLM transforms it into a more detailed specification of a problem, then writes code to test that specification, then creates more specification, then tests that.
Is “Specification Repair” the AI Endgame?
Paul Ford
Productivity is often a distraction. Don’t aim for better ways to get through your tasks as quickly as possible. Instead aim for better tasks that you never want to stop doing.
Excellent Advice for Living
Kevin Kelly
Life (and intersectionality) are complex, but money is, relatively speaking, simple. As a society, there’s plenty of it to go around but it’s distributed stupidly, unjustly, and inefficiently.
Class Reductionist
ongoing by Tim Bray
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