alt Hacker NewsThe tech isn't the big news. It's the process opportunity for governments. That said, I did really like what they reported on a use case of Gemini -- they got a bunch of people to video every single process in the old systems, and then got Gemini to watch the video and write full specs for the new systems. Niiice.
What you have in civil government is a lot of people and a lot of time -- turning that into inputs for acceptance on the new codebase is super smart -- and using only their expertise (legacy system screen caps), but relying on the AI to do all the tech spec work feels super smart.
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kwertyoowiyop • today at 12:35 PM
Totally. A small motivated team working iteratively with the users of the current system. That’s a great way to work, regardless of the AI “hook.”
> they got a bunch of people to video every single process in the old systems, and then got Gemini to watch the video and write full specs for the new systems. Niiice.
Ah, that's what the AI ingredient is.
Seems reasonable, the kind of drudge work that gets avoided because nobody wants to do it. Requirements-capture what the existing system does. This often fails in the real world because it's done at some distance: either writing down what they think the system does, or want it to do, or getting political interference to pretend the process is something other than it is, but ignoring the actual working on the ground process.