#4030 Specificity Paradox" of AI
#4030 Specificity Paradox" of AI #4030 Assess the opinion: """Agentic-AI and even prompting for Generative-AI is coding in English, and that will take time to match the performance of coding in formal programming languages. Even then, prompting will probably have to be so specific that you might as well be coding in a formal programming language.""" This opinion touches on a central debate in software engineering: the tension between natural language intent and deterministic execution . It is a sophisticated take that highlights the "Specificity Paradox" of AI. Here is an assessment of that perspective, broken down by its core claims. 1. "Prompting is Coding in English" This is a popular but slightly misleading analogy. While both involve giving instructions to a system, the fundamental mechanics differ: Formal Languages are Deterministic: In a language like C++ or Python, the relationship between input and output is (ideally) ...