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manuelabeledoyesterday at 6:31 PM1 replyview on HN

If you cannot even provide a clear definition of what you want it to be, then this is all science fiction.


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coldteayesterday at 7:43 PM

Doesn't have to be "a clear definition", a rough defition within some quite lax boundaries is fine.

You can just say to Claude for example "Make me an app that accepts daily weight measurements and plots them in a graph" and it will make one. Tell it to use tha framework or this pattern, and it will do so too. Ask for more features as you go, in similar vague language. At some point your project is done.

Even before AI the vast majority of software is not written with any "clear definition" to begin with, there's some rought architecture and idea, and people code as they go, and often have to clarify or rebuilt things to get them as they want, or discover they want something slightly different or the initial design had some issues and needs changing.

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