Plain: the Language of Spec-Driven Development
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The article introduces Plain, a language for spec-driven development, sparking discussion on its potential and challenges, including its relation to declarative programming and AI-driven ambiguity resolution.
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dusano
4 months ago
I'm one of the authors of this post. Happy to answer any question that you might have.
predkambrij
4 months ago
Sounds really interesting, very much new way of thinking. AI can ask questions to resolve ambiguities (sometimes might not matter - prototypes, and let it make best guess). Sounds a little bit like declarative programming. Spec is in a way also a test (is the button really red if it was specified red. What is red (should it be really red, or just a little bit). A lot of interesting challenges, but sounds really what could be helpful in the future.
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