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This reminds me of when I had to supervise outsourced developers. I wanted to say "build a function that does X and returns Y". But instead I had to say "build a function that takes these inputs, loops over them and does A or B based on condition C, and then return Y by applying Z transformation"

At that point it was easier to do it myself.




"What programming computers is really like."

EDIT: Although perhaps it's even more important when dealing with humans and contracts. Someone could deliberately interpret the words in a way that's to their advantage.




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