Thoughts from a younger generation.. [LWN.net]

Thoughts from a younger generation..

Posted May 18, 2026 20:29 UTC (Mon) by malmedal (subscriber, #56172)
In reply to: Thoughts from a younger generation.. by Wol
Parent article: RIP Peter G. Neumann

What's actually been happening lately is that the LLMs have been instructed to ask the humans clarifying questions when instructions are ambiguous.

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Thoughts from a younger generation..

Posted May 19, 2026 8:31 UTC (Tue) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link] (1 responses)

Ah, ok. Well, that's completely different from current compilers highlighting ambiguous/undefined/error-containing code with a warning/error; and totally different from programmers today asking clarifying questions on a spec from a customer (directly or indirectly via a PM). ;)

The future is so bright. At *last* we have our magic bullet for software engineering!

Eat *that* Brooks!

Thoughts from a younger generation..

Posted May 19, 2026 10:15 UTC (Tue) by malmedal (subscriber, #56172) [Link]

It's very different in that you're operating at a much higher level of abstraction. By several orders of magnitude compared to previous attempts at report generators and wizards.

It's also being done by non-programmers, like the defense editor at The Economist wrote that he had made a program to help him keep track of aircraft movements in the middle east.