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We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you simply release the detailed spec for software and tell people to prompt their agent to build it themselves From the README of OpenAI’s new Symphony orchestrator: github.com/openai/symph...

The spec is really good - detailed, comprehensive: github.com/openai/symph... Implementations are now easy. Writing excellent specifications becomes the core skill.

IF you want to adapt software to fit your needs, run in your pref lang, change the architectural decisions, etc. rather than forking and editing source code, you can adjust at a higher level. Specs are a concise, directionally correct design ref with less complexity than the implementation code.

I like the idea conceptually, have you tried it in practice? I’m a bit concerned at how well a spec will actually be followed, especially as it increases in size and complexity.