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The Bus Problem: Specifying Software is Hard.

Lindsey Kuper (20 March 2026)
🔗 https://recurse.social/@lindsey/116259880400168429
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A little thread with implications for specifying software rigorously enough for an LLM (or a person, for that matter) to go off and build it.

Fully specifying software is hard and takes not just human-level intelligence but a kind of persnickety perseveration that few people can achieve, let alone enjoy.