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Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated


March, 21 2026 A sufficiently detailed spec is code begins with this lovely comic: There is a profound tension here: english specifications intuitively feel precise until you learn better from bitter experience. (It's all in that facial expression of the last frame.) "Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise." – Bertrand Russel Programming, like writing, is an activity, where one iteratively sharpens what they're doing as they do it.

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