alt Hacker NewsThere is verification and validation.
The first part is making sure you built to your specification, the second thing is making sure you built specification was correct.
The second part is going to be the hard part for complex software and systems.
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I think validation is already much easier using LLMs. Arguably this is one of the best use cases for coding LLMs right now: you can get claude to throw together a working demo of whatever wild idea you have without needing to write any code or write a spec. You don't even need to be a developer.
I don't know about you, but I'd much rather be shown a demo made by our end users (with claude) than get sent a 100 page spec. Especially since most specs - if you build to them - don't solve anyone's real problems.
Demo, don't memo.
> The second part is going to be the hard part for complex software and systems.
Not going to. Is. Actually, always has been; it isn’t that coding solutions wasn’t hard, before, but verification and validation cannot be made arbitrarily cheap. This is the new moat - if your solutions require time consuming and expensive in dollar terms qa (in the widest sense), it becomes the single barrier to entry.