The author's stance also used to be my stance for a long time

The author's stance also used to be my stance for a long time. Then, earlier this week, I tried out AutoGPT/evo.ninja (which uses GPT-4 under the hood) and told it to "Write me a snake game in HTML, CSS and JavaScript" and, voilà, it wrote me a game that I could open in my browser and it worked perfectly out of the box. I also tried this with Tic Tac Toe – it didn't work at first due to a bug in the CSS but the agent was able to fix that bug in the second round. It knew the context, knew the files it had created in the first round, and knew what I was talking about when I said "the Xs and Os are not visible", etc. So, yes, program specs might still be needed in the beginning, when a piece of software gets written from scratch. But AI will often just fill in missing steps, and once the code has been written, the AI will simply iterate on it, and so the code will take on the role of the spec, just like it does nowadays. No need for the product manager to write detailed specs anymore. …