I think your objections miss the point. My informal specs to a program are user-focused. I want to dictate what benefits the program will give to the person who is using it, which may include requirements for a transport layer, a philosophy of user interaction, or any number of things. When I know what I want out of a program, I go through the agony of translating that into a spec with database schemas, menu options, specific encryption schemes, etc., then finally I turn that into a formal spec within which whether I use an underscore or a dash somewhere becomes a thing that has to be consistent throughout the document.

You're telling me that I should be doing the agonizing parts in order for the LLM to do the routine part (transforming a description of a program into a formal description of a program.) Your list of things that "make no sense" are exactly the things that I want the LLMs to do. I want to be able to run the same spec again and see the LLM add a feature that I never expected (and wasn't in the last version run from the same spec) or modify tactics to accomplish user goals based on changes in technology or availability of new standards/vendors.

I want to see specs that move away from describing the specific functionality of programs altogether, and more into describing a usefulness or the convenience of a program that doesn't exist. I want to be able to feed the LLM requirements of what I want a program to be able to accomplish, and let the LLM research and implement the how. I only want to have to describe constraints i.e. it must enable me to be able to do A, B, and C, it must prevent X,Y, and Z; I want it to feel free to solve those constraints in the way it sees fit; and when I find myself unsatisfied with the output, I'll deliver it more constraints and ask it to regenerate.

> I want to be able to run the same spec again and see the LLM add a feature that I never expected (and wasn't in the last version run from the same spec) or modify tactics to accomplish user goals based on changes in technology or availability of new standards/vendors.

Be careful what you wish for. This sounds great in theory but in practice it will probably mean a migration path for the users (UX changes, small details changed, cost dynamics and a large etc.)