> You can’t just give a 3000-word, 4-page detailed dense spec and expect it to follow everything, and the larger the codebase, the less it can pack everything in, nor are the vast documents you can feed it worthwhile.

This point seems lost on a lot of principals. I’ve had very little success with these grandiose designs and change requests from RFCs/specs. The context windows just can’t keep it all together and very quickly the approach unravels.

I posit that the further ICs were from writing code at this point in their career, the more they suffer from AI psychosis. It’s the same ivory tower they were already on, just a different order they’re giving.