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Engineering-Style LLM Development Requires Clear Specifications, Study Finds

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Overview

  • Paper explores making LLM system development more engineering-focused through specifications
  • Addresses challenges in building reliable and modular LLM systems
  • Proposes five key properties for software engineering with LLMs
  • Emphasizes need for formal specifications in AI development
  • Examines current limitations of prompt engineering approaches

Plain English Explanation

Building AI systems today is like constructing a building without detailed blueprints. Developers often rely on trial and error, tweaking prompts until they get desired results. This paper argues for bringing traditional software engineering principles to [LLM system developmen...

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