Indeed, this is a much more realistic and useful framing of what to do with the current capabilities of LLMs. They work so fast, at such a high level, that you can speedrun the co-evolution process and end up with a spec and code that works. You can actually use second-system (fourth? fifth? I lost track) syndrome to your advantage because it’s so cheap to throw things away. And they don’t just write the system, they also write the test harness, the benchmarks, the failure simulation, the statistics…all the stuff that seems like “overhead” but lets you drive that evolution with data.

I’ve kind of drifted into this mode a bit at a time over the last year, but hadn’t stepped back to make such a coherent explanation of it.