@zzzeek@fosstodon.org @glyph@mastodon.social @hynek@mastodon.social programming is a special case: you are designing an algorithm, and the resulting artifact is an encoding of that algorithm, at which point you can try it to see if it's correct. (of course it has its own blind spots because computers are hard.) but most tasks aren't like this. most tasks are the *execution* of an algorithm. how do i verify if a chatbot correctly added up some numbers? well i have to add up the numbers myself and see if the results match