alt Hacker NewsIt would be nice if you could just commit the prompts as your "source code", and let the AI-generated code sit in the repo as a kind of expensive-to-generate build output.
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Problem is that for any non trivial software is that the prompt is a conversation and the steps increasingly depend on the output. Of course you can ask your LLM to write the SPEC.md at any moment but it will lack nuance.
Shameless plug: at https://slopyard.net I embrace this and only let people submit the spec. If somebody wants your software they can regenerate it and change whatever they want.
Do we have reproducible LLMs?
Possible in theory, with a seeded PRNG, but in practice?
One of the goals of "Operation Rapidash" (q.v.: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50065342) was precisely this. "You can delete the whole source repo and get effectively the same software back from the specs by running it through [AI agent]."
You can do that - it's called Spec Driven Development.