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rubyfanyesterday at 10:33 PM1 replyview on HN

> You make it sound like writing good requirements is easy.

I am certain I didn’t say that. To be a good product owner one needs skill, care and understanding of the business intent. If you know the business intent but lack the skill to express it as a useful requirement then it’s insufficient; if you have the skill but lack understanding or ability to understand the business intent then it’s insufficient; if you have the skill and understand the business intent but you are careless in your work then it’ll be insufficient too. If the problem space is emergent then having all three might not be good enough either.

It’s certainly true that good engineering teams can deeply understand the problem space enough to get to a business outcome without requirement documents.

I just wouldn’t bet that LLMs are going to make any of these realities any better, they might exacerbate those issues.


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mpynetoday at 2:15 AM

> I just wouldn’t bet that LLMs are going to make any of these realities any better, they might exacerbate those issues.

Yes, that's certainly a fair assessment, especially the more it convinces software developers they can talk to the LLM rather than talking to users.