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Tech guy invents the concept of giving instructions

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With clear requirements and outcome expected

Why did no one think of this before

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Who does that? What if they do everything right and it doesn’t work and then it turns out it’s my fault?

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It would be nice if it was possible to describe perfectly what a program is supposed to do.

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Someone should invent some kind of database of syntax, like a… code

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But it would need to be reliable with a syntax, like some kind of grammar.

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That’s great, but then how do we know that the grammar matches what we want to do - with some sort of test?

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What, like some kind of design requirements?

Heresy!

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8 points

Design requirements are too ambiguous.

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10 points

Design requirements are what it should do, not how it does it.

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That’s why you must negotiate or clarify what is being asked. Once it has been accepted, it is not ambiguous anymore as long as you respect it.

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I’m a systems analyst, or in agile terminology “a designer” as I’m responsible for “design artifacts”

Our designs are usually unambiguous

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9 points

What did you said?

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I think our man meant in terms of real-world situations

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2 points

And NOT yet another front page written in ReactJS.

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This still isn’t specific enough to specify exactly what the computer will do. There are an infinite number of python programs that could print Hello World in the terminal.

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I knew it, i should’ve asked for assembly

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Yeah but that’s a lot of writing. Much less effort to get the plagiarism machine to write it instead.

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Ha

None of us would have jobs

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I think the joke is that that is literally what coding, is.

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OP just chatting with themselves so they can screenshot it?

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That is some telegram group and both messages shows from left with profile icons(which got cropped). The screenshot person sent the last message which shows double ticks

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4 points

In the desktop client the positions of bubbles also depend on the width of the window.

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Great attention to detail!

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That’s just a fake conversation in general, look at the timestamps between the messages from the interlocutor. Several minutes to type a complete sentence?

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Hey, i can take a few hours to reply sometimes :c

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Could be a group chat but we all know they’re a twat

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I wrote a shell script like this (it admin , notna dev) for private use.
The prompt took me like 5 hours of rewriting the instructions.
Don’t even know yet if it works (lol)

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