alt Hacker NewsNot all aspects of a spec can be formally encoded. But even half-way houses are good.
Eg you can give the vague spec 'build me a todo list app', but you can still formally prove that everything your app does finishes, or even that it finishes in reasonable time.
Yes. For sure we will never be able to 100% automate the whole SWE process. As you say, the first input is a human wish, and there comes the joke of the genie that always screw the wishes by leaving something obvious out, because not explicitly specified. Also I think at some point the halting problem will make some programs impossible to test. But it would so great, program in a loose syntax, but with more safety than Rust and Ada together