Specifying what you want matters more now that agents write the code than it did when the work went to a human who could ask follow-up questions.

Chief Scientist at Google DeepMind and Google Research

So we've always told computer scientists from the very beginning that really it's really important to specify what it is, what's the software that you're writing is trying to accomplish before then going and writing it. And so now we actually have agent-based systems that can do the writing, but the importance of specifying what what it is you want has actually gone up because before you'd be handing it off to a very intelligent human who maybe has context or can ask you follow-up questions.